in what sense does poetry have a face?

Answer 1

I beleive it usually exposes the true inward or hidden face of the author. "You can't judge a book by it's cover" is what i mean.
A mirror of onselfs "true" face.

Answer 2

The poet shows his face through his poetry, often "through the glass darkly..." so to speak, in poetry he is able to reveal his inner self/nature through many-faceted imagery communicated in words. The "face" of the poetry is often clouded with the innermost realms of the visionary who constructed the poem, thus enabling the reader to envision the art of the poet both through the poet's eyes and through the interpretive eye of the self. A good poem's face is a marauder of our senses that lends us a multi-dimensional perspective beyond mere words and their accepted meanings, throwing us into the imagery and rhythm of itself and defining it's own nature by defying definition. The face of poetry is in both the vision of the writer and the perception of the reader.

Answer 3

It shows itself in an expression