Voyages over voices : critical essays on Anne Stevenson / edited by Angela Leighton.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Leighton, Angela, 1954-

Series:

Liverpool English texts and studies ; 59.

Liverpool English texts and studies ; 59

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Authors, Irish--21st century.

Authors, Irish.

Stevenson, Anne, 1933-2020--Criticism and interpretation.

Stevenson, Anne.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (ix, 257 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Critical essays on Anne Stevenson

Place of Publication:

Liverpool : Liverpool University Press, 2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Voyages over Voices is the first book length critical exploration of the internationally acclaimed American-British poet Anne Stevenson. A past winner of the The Poetry Foundation's Neglected Masters Award, the Lannan Lifetime Achievement Award for Poetry and the Northern Rock Foundation Writer's Award, Stevenson has long been admired by poets and critics alike as one of the most important contemporary poets on either side of the Atlantic. Angela Leighton brings together a distinguished list of contributors, including Jay Parini, Carol Rumens, Tim Kendall and John Lucas, in a collection that provides a significant and invaluable contribution to understanding Stevenson's work as poet and critic. Voyages over Voices will be required reading for scholars contemporary British and American poetry.

Contents:

"Making poetry" / Anne Stevenson

"Voyages over voices" : introduction / Angela Leighton

The melting metaphor / Anne Stevenson

"Between us" : letters and poems of Stevenson and Bishop / Jonathan Ellis

Mothers, mirrors, doubles : Anne Stevenson's elegies for Sylvia Plath / Adam Piette

Staging second thoughts : the poetry of Anne Stevenson / John Redmond

"Making poetry" : the exemplary Anne Stevenson / John Lucas

"A curved adventure" : romanticism and the poetry of Anne Stevenson / Michael O'Neill

The nature of Anne Stevenson / Jay Parini

Anne Stevenson and the poetry of place / Sean Pryor

Compacting time : Anne Stevenson's poems of memory / Emily R. Grosholz

"Not exactly a persona" : pronouns in Anne Stevenson's poetry / Sara Johnson

"To serve a girl on terrible terms" : Anne Stevenson's writing selves / Emma Jones

Talking and singing : Anne Stevenson's variations on a rhythmical theme / Carol Rumens

"Time will erase" : Anne Stevenson and elegy / Tim Kendall

Observing the overhearing : the Anne Stevenson papers in Cambridge University Library / John Wells

Bibliography of Anne Stevenson's published works / John Wells.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 02 Oct 2015).

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

1-78138-692-7

1-84631-627-8

OCLC:

781406533