Poetry's Touch

by William Waters

To whom does a poem speak? Do poems really communicate with those they address? Is reading poems like overhearing? Like intimate conversation? Like performing a script? William Waters pursues these questions by closely reading a selection of poems that say "you" to a human being: to the reader, to the beloved, or to the dead. In any account of reading lyric poetry, Waters argues, there will be places where the participant roles of speaker, intended...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 080144120X
• ISBN13: 9780801441202
• Release Date: October 2003
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.91 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.6"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher