Evaluating the poetry of Anne Sexton 30 years after her death, this text examines the possibilities of language to convey an individual's response to their own existence, the project of defining love and the purpose of the aesthetic in our understanding of these entities.
Focusing on Sexton's poems rather than on the life she led, this fresh critique of her work restarts the debate about her poetry 30 years after her death. McGowan argues that Sexton's poetry collections develop a three-way investigation into the possibilities of language to conv…
Prefaced by an account of the early days of Berryman studies by bibliographer and scholar Richard J. Kelly, " After thirty Falls " is the first collection of essays to be published on the American poet John Berryman (1914-1972) in over a decade. The book seeks to provoke new int…
Prefaced by an account of the early days of Berryman studies by bibliographer and scholar Richard J. Kelly, " After thirty Falls " is the first collection of essays to be published on the American poet John Berryman (1914-1972) in over a decade. The book seeks to provoke new int…