Poetry as Persuasion (The Life of Poetry: Poets on Their Art and Craft)
"With Whitman and Dickinson as his touchstones and contemporary American poetry as his specific purview, Carl Dennis brilliantly demonstrates inPoetry as Persuasionwhy poetic voice is essential to the process of lyric articulation. Dennis's essays are particularly useful to poets learning their craft and to students of poetry, but every reader will find delight in the calm and lucid intelligence each page holds."--Michael Collier