The Once and Future Muse: The Poetry and Poetics of Rhina P. Espaillat

by Nancy Kang and Silvio Torres-Saillant

The Once and Future Muse presents the first major study of the life and work of Dominican-born bilingual American poet and translator Rhina P. Espaillat (b. 1932). Beginning with her literary celebrity as the youngest poet ever inducted into the Poetry Society of America, it traces her relative obscurity after 1952 when she married and took on family and employment responsibilities, to her triumphant return to the poetry spotlight decades later...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822965429
• ISBN13: 9780822965428
• Release Date: May 2018
• Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.9" x 8.9"