Modern Poetics Author:James Scully, ed. from A Prefatory Note: — It should be remarked, first, that the following selections obviously do not consitute a poetics; this would be true even if the length and range of the anthology were extended. All selections, however, have been drawn from the prose writings of poets, not from those of theoreticians; the majority are concerned with poetr... more »y as a present and future activity, as a "making" or strategy....
Each essay (letter, journal entry, interview) should open an avenue into the poetic theory implicit in the writer's own poetry....No one is represented as a critic, except casually; each poet sddresses himself to his own poetry or his own conception of it.« less