Touchstones: American Poets on a Favorite PoemRobert Pack, Jay Parini In this collection, "fifty-nine of America's best poets select their favorite verse by another writer and explore its influence on their own writing."--From back cover. |
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... women " tie and tuck , " flat , truncated words and actions - it hurls itself into the next sequence and builds to its grand conclusion . These old women bring life out of cold sleep , they order the very light of the day , they plan ...
... women " tie and tuck , " flat , truncated words and actions - it hurls itself into the next sequence and builds to its grand conclusion . These old women bring life out of cold sleep , they order the very light of the day , they plan ...
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... women , even as his weakness and deformity were exposed to them , has a haunting analogy in his emotional life . As a young man , Pope had met the Blount sisters , Teresa and Martha , daughters of a woman who had once been a neighbor of ...
... women , even as his weakness and deformity were exposed to them , has a haunting analogy in his emotional life . As a young man , Pope had met the Blount sisters , Teresa and Martha , daughters of a woman who had once been a neighbor of ...
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... women are one step ahead of him . What you have in Prufrock is a man who tries to reconcile the image of real women with ' light brown hair ' on their arms with some ideal , women who are a cross between the goddess Juno and a sweet ...
... women are one step ahead of him . What you have in Prufrock is a man who tries to reconcile the image of real women with ' light brown hair ' on their arms with some ideal , women who are a cross between the goddess Juno and a sweet ...
Contents
John Balaban on Wulf and Eadwacer | 11 |
Rosellen Brown on Silence by Marianne Moore | 26 |
Cook on Painting by Langston Hughes | 40 |
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