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Description of  Acts of Mind: Conversations with Contemporary Poets

081730228X azw3 A good poem is, to borrow from Wallace Stevens, a poem of the mind in the act of finding / What will suffice (Of Modern Poetry), a poem of the mind that both thinks and feels Acts of Mind grew out of interviews conducted by the author for Poetry Miscellany. The aim of which was to help develop a method for talking about the work of contemporary poets. The poets whose views appear in this volume represent a fair cross-section of the more important tendencies and impulses to be found in contemporary poetry and poetics.