Compulsory Figures: Essays on Recent American Poets

by Henry S. Taylor

Book Overview

Although he is best known as a poet, Henry Taylor is also an astute critic, as the essays in this discerning collection demonstrate. In Compulsory Figures, Taylor writes about seventeen contemporary poets, much of whose work, he says, has been a part of his mental landscape since he himself began to write poetry. The pieces were written, and most of them published, over an extended period of time; as a whole, the collection reveals Taylor's...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807117552
• ISBN13: 9780807117552
• Release Date: October 1992
• Publisher: LSU Press
• Length: 328 Pages
• Weight: 1.21 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.4" x 9.3"