Against Coercion: Games Poets Play

by Eleanor Cook

"The inertia of language," declares Geoffrey Hill, is also "the coercive force of language." Good poets write against coercion, and Against Coercion is essentially about the power of words. Looking at our most highly organized form of words, poems, and how they work, it observes how that work speaks-always indirectly-to historical, ethical, and aesthetic questions, including matters of culture, identity, and feminism. It also demonstrates...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0804729379
• ISBN13: 9780804729376
• Release Date: April 1998
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Length: 332 Pages
• Weight: 1.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.3" x 9.2"