Vise and Shadow: Essays on the Lyric Imagination, Poetry, Art, and Culture

by Peter Balakian

Book Overview

Peter Balakian is a renowned poet, scholar, and memoirist; but his work as an essayist often prefigures and illuminates all three. "I think of vise and shadow as two dimensions of the lyric (literary and visual) imagination," he writes in the preface to this collection, which brings together essayistic writings produced over the course of twenty-five years. Vise, "as in grabbing and holding with pressure," but also in the sense of the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 022625433X
• ISBN13: 9780226254333
• Release Date: May 2015
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.5" x 8.4"