Publication

1995 - Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass, Massachusetts

Language

English

Word Count

66,500 words, Guess

Page Count

266 pages

Identifiers

and 2 more
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  • LibraryThing130469

Classifications

  • DDC811/.5409
  • LCCPS325 .V47 1995

Description

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 power; it is, she says, the voice of the soul rather than the socially marked self speaking directly to us through the stylization of verse. "Soul Says," the title of a poem by Jorie Graham, is thus the name of this collection.

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Other Editions

  • Soul says: on recent poetryBelknap Press of Harvard University Press1995-01-01

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