Reversing the Spell(1st Edition) New & Selected Poems by ProfessorEleanorWilner Paperback, 250 Pages, Published 1997 by Copper Canyon Press ISBN-13: 978-1-55659-082-5, ISBN: 1-55659-082-2
""If there is one person who epitomizes the best of today's women's poetry, it is surely Eleanor Wilner."--Booklist"
"The venture of this inviting collection is to look, from the many vantages that the 35 poets in this eclectic anthology chose to look, at what it was—knowing that a poem can’t be conceived in advance of its creation—that helped their poems to emerge or connected them over time. The Rag-Picker's Guide to Poetry permits an inside view of how poets outwit internal censors and habits of thought, showing how the meticulous and the spontaneou ..."
"The venture of this inviting collection is to look, from the many vantages that the 35 poets in this eclectic anthology chose to look, at what it was—knowing that a poem can’t be conceived in advance of its creation—that helped their poems to emerge or connected them over time. The Rag-Picker's Guide to Poetry permits an inside view of how poets outwit internal censors and habits of thought, showing how the meticulous and the spontaneou ..."
""Hammer and Blaze" provides a true cross-section of the best contemporary poets writing in North America today. Editors Ellen Bryant Voigt and Heather McHugh have brought together the work of sixty poets who have taught at the Warren Wilson MFA Program for Writers, one of the most respected and influential writing programs of its kind.The stellar group of contributors includes MacArthur fellows Campbell McGrath, Anne Carson, Edward Hirs ..."
"I committed myself to the task of translating Andromache in 1 974, and made
sixteen "finished" versions in the following twenty-two years. Some speeches,
especially Andromache's opening fifty-five-line elegy, went through more than
thirty versions. As each failed version narrowed down the list of available
experiments, or liberties with Euripides' text, I got glimpses of what it was exactly
that I was listening for in my ear and lo ..."
""Hammer and Blaze" provides a true cross-section of the best contemporary poets writing in North America today. Editors Ellen Bryant Voigt and Heather McHugh have brought together the work of sixty poets who have taught at the Warren Wilson MFA Program for Writers, one of the most respected and influential writing programs of its kind.The stellar group of contributors includes MacArthur fellows Campbell McGrath, Anne Carson, Edward Hirs ..."