Why Don't We Say What We Mean?: Essays Mostly about Poetry

by Lawrence Raab

Literary Nonfiction. Poetry. Lawrence Raab has been revered as a quietly magnificent poet. As friends and students have long known, for decades he's also been a virtuosic teacher. In this first collection of his contemplative essays, Raab ponders works that keep mattering to him as a working writer, with fresh considerations of Edwin Arlington Robinson and Thomas Hardy, Wislawa Szymborska, Ben Jonson, Henry James, Gertrude Stein, Lewis Carroll, the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1936797763
• ISBN13: 9781936797769
• Release Date: November 2016
• Publisher: Tupelo Press
• Length: 196 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.