Craft: What is the function of poetry?
Bishop, Grossman, Bronk, Niedecker, Shakespeare, Frost
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Elizabeth Bishop:
Writing poetry is an unnatural act. It takes great skill to make it seem natural.
Allen Grossman described in a 1990 lecture when poetry in the West was born. Hesiod was walking up Mount Helicon and c…
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