Eric Murphy Selinger
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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