The Weather of Words: Poetic Inventions - Softcover

"A primer on the magnanimity of poetry, with selected essays, criticism, reflections and inventions. Together they form a creed, which is this: A poem is the unassailable expression of what cannot be expressed in any other way... Poetry is ubiquitous and contagious, hilarious and holy; it bewitches children and converts housewives. Few American poets still write with joy and charmed irony, but in Strand the elation had not diminished."
--Sara Miller, Chicago Tribune

The Pulitzer Prize-winning poet discusses art and the nature of poetry, the link between photography and words, the eternal nature of the lyric, four American perspectives on Mount Parnassus, and much more in this insightful collection of essays. Reprint.