News at Eleven: And writing about poetry, particularly praising

contemporary poetry, is a fine but extremely difficult art. It has to distill the presumed poetic genius of the writer being praised in a way that at the very least equals the supposed brilliance of the work itself. So in a way it's more elevated than prose; it's prose-poetry (remember that?) about poetry.

from Slate: New Literary Art Form Discovered!: in praise of the praise of poetry

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