Soul Says: On Recent Poetry

By Helen Vendler

Book Overview

In this collection of essays on recent American, British and Irish poetry, Helen Vendler shows how contemporary life and culture is captured in lyric form by a number of well-known poets. Vendler explains the power of such poetry; it is, she says, the voice of the soul rather than the socially marked self speaking directly to us through the stylization of verse. Soul Says, the title of a poem by Jorie Graham, is thus the name of this collection.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674821467
• ISBN13: 9780674821460
• Release Date: March 1995
• Publisher: Belknap Press
• Length: 284 Pages
• Weight: 1.19 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.5" x 1.0" x 6.5"