"The Old Poetries and the New" collects Richard Kostelanetz's fugitive critical and theoretical essays on poetry. Dvidied into two parts, subtitled 'The Old Poetries' and the 'The New Poetries,' this book makes its theme the difference between the two. No One else has surveyed this fresh terrain in incomparable detail, subtlety, and discrimination. As both a critic and a poet, he is, as some have said, 'the unacknowledged Ezra Pound of our generation.' -- from backside wrapper.