Poetry's Old Air

by Marianne Baruch and Marianne Boruch

Book Overview

Marianne Boruch is one of America's finest contemporary poets, and as she demonstrates in Poetry's Old Air, she is also a marvelous essayist. Weaving together close readings, biographical detail, and personal reflections, Boruch meditates on a universal fascination: how a poem comes to exist.
A variety of imaginative approaches sets the essays apart from strictly academic poetry criticism. Boruch's ear for metaphor and attention to everyday...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 047206584X
• ISBN13: 9780472065844
• Release Date: June 1995
• Publisher: University of Michigan Press
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.3" x 8.0"