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Author
Pub. Date
2001.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
A noted biographer and poet illuminates the unique woman who wrote the greatest American love poetry of the twentieth century
What Lips My Lips Have Kissed is the story of a rare sort of American genius, who grew up in grinding poverty in Camden, Maine. Nothing could save the sensitive child but her talent for words, music and drama, and an inexorable desire to be loved. When she was twenty, her poetry would make her famous; at thirty she would be...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
1998.
Language
English
Description
What is it then between us? Walt Whitman asks in "Crossing Brooklyn Ferry." In this generous, imaginative study, Eric Murphy Selinger uses Whitman's question to open a welcome new perspective on American poetry. From Anne Bradstreet to Adrienne Rich and James Merrill, Selinger contends, American poets have seen issues in poetics - the poem "between us"--As inextricable from questions of love.
Tracing the solitude of the American self, the difference...
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