On burning ground thirty years of thinking about poetry
Why do we write: some thoughts on the coin that sings -- Of the living dead: the poet-critic in an age of theory -- Confessional mythology -- A ruthlessness of one's own -- Glass joints: a meditation on the line -- Mysteries of the hyphen: poetry, pasta, and identity politics -- Westward, off t...
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| Sprache: | eng |
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Ann Arbor
University of Michigan Press
2009
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| Schriftenreihe: | Poets on poetry
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Tag hinzufügen | Zusammenfassung: | Why do we write: some thoughts on the coin that sings -- Of the living dead: the poet-critic in an age of theory -- Confessional mythology -- A ruthlessness of one's own -- Glass joints: a meditation on the line -- Mysteries of the hyphen: poetry, pasta, and identity politics -- Westward, off the map -- Staging grief: two elegies -- All about my mother (and me) -- The rediscovery of H.D -- Mephistopheles in Maine: rereading Lowell's "Skunk hour" -- Looking for Mr. Death: on Sexton's The death notebooks -- Of metaphors and morals: on three visions of Sylvia Plath -- Extraordinary words: on Ruth Stone's Ordinary words -- The lamentations of the new: on Louise Glück's Vita nova -- The last wilderness of the wild old: on Marie Ponsot's The bird catcher and Rajzel Zychlinsky's God hid his face -- On the edge of the estate -- How these new homegirls sing -- The worst of the best; or, "Pessoa, Schmessoa" -- Where the boys are -- Common wealth |
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| Beschreibung: | XIV, 180 S. |
| ISBN: | 0472050567 0-472-05056-7 0472070568 0-472-07056-8 9780472050567 978-0-472-05056-7 9780472070565 978-0-472-07056-5 |