noun. Literary criticism that deals with the nature, forms, and laws of poetry.

noun. A treatise on or study of poetry or aesthetics.

noun. The practice of writing poetry; poetic composition.

noun. That branch of criticism which treats of the nature and laws of poetry.

noun. The principles and rules of the art of poetry.

noun. The theory of poetry, or of literature in general

noun. study of poetic works

"While this might be referred to as a poetics of labor it challenges the notion of what it means to be a poet if we consider poetry as also way of surviving and living in the world."

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