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Article: Poets on Poetry: The Collected Prose of James Wright.(Book Review)
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- June 1, 1984
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Poets on Poetry: The Collected Prose of James Wright. Edited by Anne Wright. Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press. $8.95 (p.b.)
Many poets possess keen critical minds and Poets on Poetry under the general editorship of Donald Hall recognizes this reality. The series has already provided us with the observations and speculations of poets as fine and important as Hayden Carruth, Robert Bly, John Logan and Galway Kinnell. Now, the posthumous Collected Prose of James Wright is available. Throughout the collection, Wright emphasizes the importance of good criticism to poetry and consistently provides it.
The book is divided into four sections: "Essays"; ...