Echo Soundings: Essays on Poetry and Poetics

By Jeffery Donaldson

Poetry may be the original form of conversation, of con-versing voices "turned towards" one another. Voices in a poem converse among themselves. The poem converses with its reader. Readers converse over poems. Our voices echo among one another. There is a ghostliness in all this, words overheard, turning and returning, as we go back to them, as they come back to us. Echo Soundings is a collection of Jeffery Donaldson's critical writings on Canadian and American poets, including James Merrill, Elizabeth Bishop, Mark Strand, Richard Outram, Anne Compton, and Al Moritz. At the core is a series of think-pieces on poetry and poetics where an essential relation among poets across time is discerned in the play of echo and allusion. Many of these essays and reviews have appeared in U of T Quarterly, Canadian Notes and Queries, The New Quarterly, Literary Review of Canada, Canadian Review of American Studies and The Partisan Review.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1926794214
• ISBN13: 9781926794211
• Release Date: October 2014
• Publisher: Palimpsest Press
• Length: 262 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.9" x 8.9"