One of the Dangerous Trades: Essays on the Work and Workings of PoetryAn examination of the poet's place in society as seen by a poet who is also a publisher. |
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... vision . Its ten sections are interlinked in imagery . In this book , as in his earlier five , Kinnell writes like a man wandering by himself among mountains and cities , coming to himself outside society . His vision takes the form of ...
... vision . Its ten sections are interlinked in imagery . In this book , as in his earlier five , Kinnell writes like a man wandering by himself among mountains and cities , coming to himself outside society . His vision takes the form of ...
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... visions if only they can be freed from their mortal limitations . He will have none of Kinnell's paradoxical nightmares , nor , say , of Sylvia Plath's murderous reconciliation of opposed forces . His is a simpler vision , one of ...
... visions if only they can be freed from their mortal limitations . He will have none of Kinnell's paradoxical nightmares , nor , say , of Sylvia Plath's murderous reconciliation of opposed forces . His is a simpler vision , one of ...
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... vision . Yet there is something about sound that is inseparable from vision , at least in my kind of poetry . There is something incantatory , something rhythmic , something to do with song , that makes vision of this kind possible ...
... vision . Yet there is something about sound that is inseparable from vision , at least in my kind of poetry . There is something incantatory , something rhythmic , something to do with song , that makes vision of this kind possible ...
Contents
One of the Dangerous Trades | 3 |
The Great Predicament of Poetry | 11 |
The Refuge of the Present Tense | 17 |
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