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Poetry about poetry…

Helen Vendler on metapoetry:

In the code language of criticism when a poem is said to be about poetry the word “poetry” is often used to mean: how people construct an intelligibility out of the randomness they experience; how people choose what they love; how people integrate loss and gain; how they distort experience by wish and dream; how they perceive and consolidate flashes of harmony; how they (to end a list otherwise endless) achieve what Keats called a “Soul or Intelligence destined to possess the sense of Identity.”

Emprise is devoting a section of the next issue to metapoetry and we’re eager to see what the indie lit scene has to offer in the s… Continue Reading