Poets' First and Last Books in Dialogue

by Thomas Simmons

A poet's oeuvre is typically studied as an arc from the first work to the last work, including everything in between as a manifestation of some advance or reversal. What if the primary relationship in a poet's oeuvre is actually between the first and last text, with those two texts sharing a compelling private language? What if, read separately from the other work, the first and last books reveal some new phenomenon about both the struggles...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1433114895
• ISBN13: 9781433114892
• Release Date: April 2012
• Publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publi
• Length: 165 Pages
• Weight: 0.92 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"