Last Looks, Last Books: Stevens, Plath, Lowell, Bishop, Merrill

by Helen Vendler

Modern American poets writing in the face of death

In Last Looks, Last Books, the eminent critic Helen Vendler examines the ways in which five great modern American poets, writing their final books, try to find a style that does justice to life and death alike. With traditional religious consolations no longer available to them, these poets must invent new ways to express the crisis of death, as well as the paradoxical coexistence...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691145342
• ISBN13: 9780691145341
• Release Date: March 2010
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 168 Pages
• Weight: 0.82 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.8" x 8.5"