Carl Phillips offers a meditation on the place of devotion at the end of a century marked increasingly by failure and uncertainty. Challenging divinity (from Eros to Christ) and mining tradition (from ancient Greece to Donne), Phillips takes us even further into that dangerous space he has already m ...
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This volume brings together Howe's earliest poems that she wishes to remain in print, in the forms she wishes them to be preserved. Includes a long preface that discusses the autobiographical, familial, literary, and historical influences on these works.
For thirty years, the late Thomas McGrath labored over his narrative epic poem, Letter to an Imaginary Friend, first publishing Part One in 1963, and finishing with Part Four in 1985. All previous editions of the individual parts contained errors which the poet intended to correct in a definitive ed ...
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