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Record Nr.

UNINA9910823895103321

Autore

Baker David <1954->

Titolo

Show me your environment : essays on poetry, poets, and poems / / David Baker

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Ann Arbor : , : The University of Michigan Press, , [2014]

ISBN

0-472-12042-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (211 p.)

Collana

Poets on poetry

Disciplina

811/.50936

Soggetti

American poetry - 20th century - History and criticism

Nature in literature

Place (Philosophy) in literature

Identity (Psychology) in literature

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

""Contents""; ""Poetry""; ""Show Me Your Environment""; ""Native Colors""; ""If: On Transit, Transcendence, and Trope""; ""Hum Along: How I Took up Guitar and Became a Poet""; ""Spill""; ""Poets""; ""Herbert's Conceited Poetry""; ""Corresponding Keats""; ""Song of Sanity: Whitman in Washington""; ""At Home with Emily Dickinson""; ""Almost Utmost: Marianne Moore""; ""Re: Wright""; ""Irony and Ecstasy: On Maxine Kumin and Gerald Stern""; ""Ted's Box: On Ted Kooser""; ""Provision and Perfection: Stanley Plumly's Poetry""; ""Brutal Mercy: On Norman Dubie""

""Signs for My Fathers: The Evolution of David Bottoms""""Heaven and Earth: On Ellen Bryant Voigt and Robert Morgan""; ""Story's Stories: Anne Carson, Susan Mitchell, Carl Phillips, D. Nurkse, and Michael Collier""; ""Poems""; ""Whitman Alone: "When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer"""; ""Walt Whitman's "Time to Come"""; ""Life Lines: Issa and Ella Wheeler Wilcox""; ""Kees and Me: "Late Evening Song" and"Top of the Stove"""; ""Levis Here and There: "In the City of Light"""; ""Jane Hirshfield's Foxes: "Three Foxes in aField at Twilight"""; ""Solmaz Sharif: "Personal Effects"""