Heresy and the ideal : on contemporary poetry
"Heresy and the Ideal is a collection of essays and essay-reviews which David Baker wrote and published throughout the 1990s. He thoroughly discusses the work of more than fifty contemporary poets. He takes as his models some of the great critical books of the past three decades, especially Richard Howard's masterpiece, Alone with America, and Helen Vendler's Part of Nature, Part of Us, as well as works by Laurence Lieberman, Majorie Perloff, Carol Muske, and Mary Kinzie."
Print Book, English, 2000
University of Arkansas Press, Fayetteville, 2000
Aufsatzsammlung
xxiii, 291 pages ; 24 cm
9781557286024, 9781557286031, 1557286027, 1557286035
42823799
Introduction
Heresy and the American ideal: on T.R. Hummer
To advantage dressed: Miller Williams among the Naked poets
Culture, inclusion, craft: on Albert Goldbarth, Jane Kenyon, Li-Young Lee, Wayne Koestenbaum, David Wojahn, Alice Fulton
The push of reading: on Jorie Graham, Carol Muske, Sherod Santos, A.R. Ammons
Framed in words: on Louis MacNeice, Seamus Heaney, Eavan Boland
Smarts: on Susan Howe, Andrew Hudgins, Mark Doty, Lynda Hull, Billy Collins
Kinds of knowing: on Eric Pankey, Louise Glück, Linda Bierds
Plainness and sufficiency: on April Bernard, Susan Hahn, Lynne McMahon, Donald Revell, Rodney Jones
Line by line: on Donna Masini, Donald Platt, A̕nnah Sobelman, Arthur Smith, Deborah Digges, Elizabeth Spires
Probable reason, possible joy: on Henri Coulette, Diane di Prima, June Jordan
On restraint: on Ted Kooser, Charles Simic, Galway Kinnell, Brigit Pegeen Kelly, Charles Wright
Romantic melancholy, romantic excess: on Linda Gregerson, Stephen Dunn, Sharon Olds, Stanley Plumly, Robert Hass
Against mastery: Adrienne Rich and Philip Levine
The crux of the matter: David Wojahn
The romance of betrayal: David St. John
Hieroglyphs of erasure: Albert Goldbarth
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