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Pinyon Review: Number 2, November 2012. Celebrating the Arts and Sciences with: The Fool on the Hill by Gary Entsminger; Three Poems by Robert B. Shaw; Windows, Letters to Ayla by Jean Zipp; Chaco Sky Photographs by Stan Honda; One Poem by Neil Harrison; Four Poems by Michael Miller; One Poem by R. T. Castleberry; Two Poems by James Reiss; Book Review of Jeffery Beam's The Broken Flower by Cy Dillon; Two Poems by Diane M. Moore; Poems and Art by Paul Dickey and Ira Joel Haber; A Real Christmas Tree by Neil Harrison

Kingston, London, Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, (1989).. First edition.. 201 pp w/index. Fine in fine dust jacket.
Beginning with an essay on the history and theory of poetic argument, he traces its patterns through Romantic and Modernist literature. He divides his subject into three areas: the paradoxes of reason, language, and argument. Poetic Argument surveys the writings of the five poets in light of what has to be "proved" and identifies the characteristic styles of proof for each. For example, in the chapter on Marianne Moore, Kertzer studies two expressions of poetic argument. The first regards poetry as a waking dream, combining the powers of sleep and calculation. The second, derived from Imagism, treats poetry as a special way of seeing. Kertzer suggests that the combination of these two elements produces Moore's characteristically intricate, but inconclusive, forms of argument.

Berkeley: Idiom Press, (1998). Small 4to. Wraps. Unpaginated. 1st ed. Fine.