CAN POETRY MATTER?; Essays on Poetry and American Culture
St. Paul: Graywolf Press, 1992. First Edition. Hardcover. Cloth-backed boards in dust jacket; 8vo. 257 pp. This copy inscribed to another poet associated with New Formalism. A now classic collection of essays and reviews published after his 1991 title essay in The Atlantic caused a storm of controversy. Probably the.....