Taken from throughout Mills's career, the essays collected in this volume delve into the work of such influential writers as Wallace Stevens, Denise Levertov, Samuel Beckett, Galway Kinnell, Edith Sitwell, Theodore Roethke, Karl Shapiro, Richard Wilbur, Isabella Gardener, James Wright, David Ignatow, Donald Hall, Robert Bly, Philip Levine, and Stanley Kunitz. Mills examines how the personal element informs the works of these writers and enables them "to speak to us, without impediment, from the deep center of a personal engagement with existence."
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"The relationship, often startling, between observation and projection in these poems is crucial. It gives us poems of great human authenticity without the least intellectual pretension--in short, wonderful poems."
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Ralph J. Mills, Jr. is a significant figure in contemporary poetry for his work as a poet, critic, and professor. His poetry collections include LIVING WITH DISTANCE, A WINDOW IN AIR, and MARCH LIGHT, which received the Carl Sandburg Award. He also edited the selected prose and letters of Theodore Roethke. From 1962 to 1965 he served as Assistant Professor and Associate Chairman of the Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago. He is professor emeritus of English at the University of Illinois at Chicago.
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Miss Raine, Dame Edith, New York, Miss Levertov, Denise Levertov, Gold Coast Customs, James Wright, Miss Gardner, Wallace Stevens, The Lost Son, Brother Antoninus, Robert Bly, Louis Simpson, New Hampshire, Robert Lowell, William Carlos Williams, Donald Hall, The Bourgeois Poet, Charles Olson, Edith Sitwell, Edwin Muir, Dylan Thomas, Kenneth Rexroth, Life Studies, Roof of Tiger Lilies New!
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Miss Raine, Dame Edith, New York, Miss Levertov, Denise Levertov, Gold Coast Customs, James Wright, Miss Gardner, Wallace Stevens, The Lost Son, Brother Antoninus, Robert Bly, Louis Simpson, New Hampshire, Robert Lowell, William Carlos Williams, Donald Hall, The Bourgeois Poet, Charles Olson, Edith Sitwell, Edwin Muir, Dylan Thomas, Kenneth Rexroth, Life Studies, Roof of Tiger Lilies New!
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