Tourist in Hell (Phoenix Poets) by EleanorWilner Paperback, 120 Pages, Published 2010 by University Of Chicago Press ISBN-13: 978-0-226-90032-2, ISBN: 0-226-90032-0
"Eleanor Wilner’s poems attempt to absorb the shock of the wars and atrocities of the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. In their litany of loss, in their outrage and sorrow, they retain the joy in life, mercy for the mortal condition, and praise for the plenitude of nature and the gifts of human artistry. As with her six earlier collections, these poems are drawn from the transpersonal realm of history and cultural memory, but ..."
Phoenix Poets Ser. Tourist in Hell by EleanorWilner 120 Pages, Published 2010 by University Of Chicago Press ISBN-13: 978-0-226-90033-9, ISBN: 0-226-90033-9
"eleanor wilner is a former MacArthur Fellow and the author of seven collections of poetry, including Otherwise and Sarah's Choice (both published by the University of Chicago Press), and her most recent work, The Girl with Bees in Her Hair ..."
"Eleanor. Wilner. and. Maurice. Manning. Introduction. That we see poets as“rag-
pickers” points to our place in time, to the way we con- temporary poets forage
wherever something of value and use might be found as material or form—in the
past, in the woods, in the world's literature and art, in pop culture, in public events
, in chance encounters, in the landfills ofhistory, in “the rag and bone shop of the
heart”—a constant, inventi ..."
"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 ..."