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This review is from: Dancing at the Devil's Party: Essays on Poetry, Politics, and the Erotic (Poets on Poetry) (Paperback)
At last another anti-Eliotelian (good ol' Tom, we loves ya reely - it's your tribe that get us) who cheerfully admits to containing multitudes (she quotes a line of Hopkins uncredited - all trades, their gear and tackle and trim - which I took to be Whitman) she writes with seemingly effortless conviction and authority. She expects us to recognise Shakespeare's sonnet 129 without prompting (p33). As soon as I'm done with Adam Kirsch (see previous review) I'll come back to it, but it doesn't seem any less good - this from someone known chiefly as somewhat so-so poet (I hope she won't mind my saying) and anthologist. Yes, there was her critical magnum opus from 1986, but that was always more of an omnium gatherum, wasn't it? Feisty, though - Or if thy mistress some rich anger shows, Imprison her soft hand, and let her rave And feed deep, deep upon her peerless eyes Keats loves it .. when she's mad Isn't it about time someone gave Stealing the Language a plug on amazon? |
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Dancing at the Devil's Party: Essays on Poetry, Politics, and the Erotic (Poets on Poetry) by Alicia Ostriker (Hardcover - January 19, 2000)
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