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Article snippet: Dear Match Book, Got anything in mind with an Emily Dickinson or Anne Carson slant? Most likely I’d expect this to yield poetry but I’m open to less compressed modes too, if they sing and soar. SARAH RAZORCAMBRIDGE, MASS. Dear Sarah, When you’re reading poems it’s easy to think that meaning lives everywhere: with a bird in a cage, among skunks by the garbage, in woods filling up with snow and lilacs blooming in April and in the dooryard. But one of the singular satisfactions found in poetry lies in watching how the mundane stretches and shifts under a writer’s hand. State of the Art Based on your affection for two very different, inventive poets, I’m guessing that you are a patient reader, dedicated to lyrical mysteries and familiar things — plants and flowers or art and classical literature — seen in new light. Like Carson, the poet Susan Howe, author of the intense, poetic study “My Emily Dickinson,” writes about art and literary history with intimacy. Howe’s spare, erudite five-part poetry collection “Debths” includes a prose introduction, sections of poetry inspired by visual art, and another section (“Tom Tit Tot”) composed of tiny typographical collages, letterpress versions of which were shown at the 2014 Whitney Biennial. Object Lessons The poet Mary Ruefle has written an art book, too — “A Little White Shadow,” published in 2006. But it is her “Selected Poems” (2010) that gives a wide introduction to the pleasures of her work. Loneliness mingles with rue... Link to the full article to read more