Seeing in the Dark: The Poetry of Phyllis Webb

by Pauline Butling

Poet Phyllis Webb initiated new ways of seeing into the cultural "dark" of Western thought. By blurring the axis between "light" and "dark," she redefined in positive terms women's subjectivity and sexuality, which are traditionally assigned "dark" negative values.

Seeing in the Dark includes perceptive discussions on a number of Webb's collections, specifically Naked Poems, Wilson's Bowl, Water and Light and...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0889202710
• ISBN13: 9780889202719
• Release Date: March 1997
• Publisher: Wilfrid Laurier University Press
• Length: 198 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"