The Poetry of Life: And the Life of Poetry (INSCRIBED COPY)
by: David Mason

Softcover. Ashland OR, Story Line Press, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 203 pages. INSCRIBED BY MASON on the front fly leaf and SIGNED again on the title page. Mason writes about poetry in general, 19th-century American poetry, contemporary poetry, the New Formalism, and about poets like W.H. Auden, Tennyson, Robert Frost, Seamus Heaney, Louis Simpson, Anne Sexton, and J.V. Cunningham. Mason's critical position? "Though I have nothing against the personal in art, I do want it transformed, made into something beyond an advertisement for the self." In other words, the author, despite dislike of the term "New Formalism," very much admires craft. Clean copy.