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"""Becoming Poetry earns its title, marking the reciprocities between the poem and the means involved in writing it. Rogoff, a poet, brings a watchmaker's attention to poems' workings in arresting, precisely considered prose. The immersive process of becoming poetry, which Rogoff makes legible, discloses the most enduring symbiosis between language and being.""--JoEllen Kwiatek, author of Study for Necessity ""Jay Rogoff, one of our most consistently interesting poets, shows he is also one of our best critics of poetry. Becoming Poetry features brilliant essays on the differences between poetry and song, Shakespeare's sonnets, and Williams's struggle with Pound in Paterson, and a deft survey of contemporary poets. On poetic accent and metrical form, he is profoundly instructive. Every lover of poetry will want this book.""--David Mikics, author of Slow Reading in a Hurried Age ""Rogoff earns a proud place in the grand tradition of the poet-critic. His experience with poetic craft yields insight, sympathy, and candor in discussing his fellow practitioners.""--Terence Diggory, author of William Carlos Williams and the Ethics of Painting"

"Jay Rogoff, one of our most consistently interesting poets, shows he is also one of our best critics of poetry. Becoming Poetry features brilliant essays on the differences between poetry and song, Shakespeare's sonnets, and Williams's struggle with Pound in Paterson, and a deft survey of contemporary poets. On poetic accent and metrical form, he is profoundly instructive. Every lover of poetry will want this book."" - David Mikics, author of Slow Reading in a Hurried Age ""Becoming Poetry earns its title, marking the reciprocities between the poem and the means involved in writing it. Rogoff, a poet, brings a watchmaker's attention to poems' workings in arresting, precisely considered prose. The immersive process of becoming poetry, which Rogoff makes legible, discloses the most enduring symbiosis between language and being."" - JoEllen Kwiatek, author of Study for Necessity ""Rogoff earns a proud place in the grand tradition of the poet-critic. His experience with poetic craft yields insight, sympathy, and candor in discussing his fellow practitioners."" - Terence Diggory, author of William Carlos Williams and the Ethics of Painting"

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Jay Rogoff has published seven books of poetry, including Loving in Truth: New and Selected Poems. His literary criticism has appeared in the Kenyon Review, Literary Imagination, the Southern Review, and many other journals. He lives in Saratoga Springs, New York.

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