Show Me Your Environment: Essays on Poetry, Poets, and Poems (Poets on Poetry) - Softcover

Baker, David

Softcover

ISBN 10: 047205225X ISBN 13: 9780472052257

Publisher: University of Michigan Press, 2014

Synopsis

Show Me Your Environment, a penetrating yet personable collection of critical essays, David Baker explores how a poem works, how a poet thinks, and how the art of poetry has evolved—and is still evolving as a highly diverse, spacious, and inclusive art form. The opening essays offer contemplations on the “environment of poetry from thoughts on physical places and regions as well as the inner aesthetic environment. Next, he looks at the highly distinctive achievements and styles of poets ranging from George Herbert and Emily Dickinson through poets writing today. Finally, Baker takes joy in reading individual poems—from the canonical to the contemporary; simply and closely.

About this title

About the Author

David Baker is Poetry Editor of The Kenyon Review and Professor of English and Thomas B. Fordham Chair of Creative Writing at Denison University. He has been awarded fellowships and grants from organizations including the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, National Endowment for the Arts, and the Poetry Society of America.

Edition details

• Publisher: University of Michigan Press
• Publication date: 2014
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 047205225X
• ISBN 13: 9780472052257
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 210