num_pages: 48
description: This collection of essays by nationally known poet, Greg Kuzma, is an insider's look at the 'poetry biz' in America. Tongue-in-cheek, irreverent, wacky and zany, while at the same time utterly serious in overall intent, these thirty-plus rants, diatribes, pseudo-scholarly studies, off-the-wall lists, fall-on-the-floor funny and no-holds barred coffee-fueled confessions are anything but a 'how-to' book for budding poets. Rather they are midnight conversations in a smoke-filled room about why poetry is written, who writes it for what audience and with what desperate and deluded aspirations. A 'must' for those who labor in the service of 'The Muse.'
language: English
title: What Poetry Is All About
titlecomplete: What Poetry Is All About
genres: Poetry
ratings_count: 5
publisher: Blue Scarab Press, 1998