Collected Poems: 1919-1979

By Madeline Gleason

Book Overview

With the publication of Madeline Gleason's collected poems, Talisman makes available the work of legendary American writer whose work has been out-of-print for nearly a generation. Gleason is a key figure in the history of women's writing and in the San Francisco Renaissance, and her poetry, drawing on fairy tales and nursery rhymes, had considerable influence on noted poets like Robert Duncan. The poetry is often inventive and playful but dark at its core: The insecurity of the poet is his security.His shambling mental movements toward the moving machine attract it to idle at the threshold of his unknowing: the interior castle.The book includes, in addition to Gleason's six published books, her work left in manuscript at her death, and two essays by her on poetics.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1883689783
• ISBN13: 9781883689780
• Release Date: December 1999
• Publisher: Talisman House Pub
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.8" x 1.0" x 5.8"