In arguably his most personal and lasting book, America's most daringly original and controversial critic gives us brief, luminous readings of more than eighty texts by canonical authors-- texts he has had by heart since childhood. Gone are the polemics. Here, instead,...
Wonderful. . . . Spectacular. . . . You feel the pulse of life, what poetry can bring to us if we let it. --The Philadelphia Inquirer This audacious personal odyssey offers readers a cosmos of possibilities when contemplating what happens once we 'shuffle off...