Correspondence with My Greeks

by Scott Cairns

Citing a line from Elizabeth Bishop-"The bight is littered with old correspondences"-Scott Cairns avers: "So, also, is my mind."

Indeed, it was Bishop's "The Bight"-encountered late in his undergraduate education-that may have first alerted Cairns to one, key, salutary fact of literary history: virtually every work written over the centuries has been to some degree a responsive text, something of an epistolary response to what...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1639821724
• ISBN13: 9781639821723
• Release Date: August 2024
• Publisher: Slant Books
• Length: 104 Pages
• Weight: 0.69 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"