Taken from throughout Mills's career, the essays collected in this volume delve into the work of such influential writers as Wallace Stevens, Denise Levertov, Samuel Beckett, Galway Kinnell, Edith Sitwell, Theodore Roethke, Karl Shapiro, Richard Wilbur, Isabella Gardener, James Wright, David Ignatow, Donald Hall, Robert Bly, Philip Levine, and Stanley Kunitz. Mills examines how the personal element informs the works of these writers and enables them qto speak to us, without impediment, from the deep center of a personal engagement with existence.qOnly in the final lines does the stump emerge again, but transformed forever by the vision of which it has been the focus: There is a sailing ship beached in the cove of a small island where the warm water is turquoise. The hulk leans over, fullanbsp;...
Title | : | Essays on poetry |
Author | : | Ralph J. Mills |
Publisher | : | Dalkey Archive Pr - 2003-07-01 |
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