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"
"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 ..."
""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 ..."
"A collection of nearly 400 poems by more than 100 different writers, The Extraordinary Tide synthesizes and celebrates an entire era of poetry by women in America. Long overdue, the anthology includes America's most recognized poets as well as those emerging as exciting new artists of contemporary verse.Featuring recent work by poets as aesthetically diverse as Ai, Jane Kenyon, Ann Lauterbach, Carolyn Forché, and Leslie Scalapino, the ..."
"A collection of nearly 400 poems by more than 100 different writers, The Extraordinary Tide synthesizes and celebrates an entire era of poetry by women in America. Long overdue, the anthology includes America's most recognized poets as well as those emerging as exciting new artists of contemporary verse.Featuring recent work by poets as aesthetically diverse as Ai, Jane Kenyon, Ann Lauterbach, Carolyn Forché, and Leslie Scalapino, the ..."
"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 ..."