Soul says : on recent poetry / Helen Vendler.
Soul says : on recent poetry / Helen Vendler.
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Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1995.
Date
1995.
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N811.5409/18
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English
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viii, 266 p. ; 25 cm.
Contents
1. The Reversed Pieta: Allen Ginsberg's "Kaddish" -- 2. Flower Power: Louise Gluck's The Wild Iris -- 3. Veracity Unshaken: A. R. Ammons' Sumerian Vistas -- 4. Recomposed and Clarified: James Merrill's The Inner Room -- 5. Southern Weather: Dave Smith -- 6. Huge Pits of Darkness, High Peaks of Light...
18. Earth and Ethereality: Seamus Heaney's Selected Poems, 1966-1987 -- 19. Mapping the Air: Adrienne Rich and Jorie Graham -- 20. Married to Hurry and Grim Song: Jorie Graham's The End of Beauty -- 21. Fin-de-Siecle Poetry: Jorie Graham.
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Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1995.
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Massachusetts
Date Published
1995.
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To know the poetry of our time, to look through its lenses and filters, is to see our lives illuminated. In these eloquent essays on recent American, British, and Irish poetry, Helen Vendler shows us contemporary life and culture captured in lyric form by some of our most celebrated poets. An incomparable reader of poetry, Vendler explains its powe...
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Soul says : on recent poetry / Helen Vendler.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [259]) and index.
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N811.5409/18
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74VvZJxRajLX
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0674821467 :
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811.5409
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991004578739702626
