American Originality: Essays on Poetry David Wheatley Language is on the loose

Language is on the loose in these poems

the selections are accompanied by explanations and illuminating context that reinforce the positive mental health message

Marilyn Hacker’s generous selections in A Stranger’s Mirror include work from four previous volumes along with twenty-five new poems

and it draws on five decades' work

and annotated with contextual notes and background information including dates

American Originality: Essays on Poetry David Wheatley Language is on the looseThe probing essays collected in American Originality scrutinise the terms we use to think about recent American poetry, its antecedents (not just Whitman and Dickinson but Ovid, Rilke, Thomas Mann, Keats) and its future, questioning how we distinguish between work that is unique and work that is original, carefully delineating the allure of both 'shared traditions' and 'the cult of illogic'. Attentive always to risk and danger, Louise Glck illuminates