American Originality: Essays on Poetry David Wheatley and annotated with contextual notes

and annotated with contextual notes and background information including dates

and it draws on five decades' work

tells the story of the authors one-way journey as a young man from his home in the northern pampas to Buenos Aires in 1950

everyday detail is revealed in a new and brilliant light

the selections are accompanied by explanations and illuminating context that reinforce the positive mental health message

American Originality: Essays on Poetry David Wheatley and annotated with contextual notesThe probing essays collected in American Originality scrutinise the terms we use to think about recent American poetry, its antecedents (not just Whitman and Dickinson but Ovid, Rilke, Thomas Mann, Keats) and its future, questioning how we distinguish between work that is unique and work that is original, carefully delineating the allure of both 'shared traditions' and 'the cult of illogic'. Attentive always to risk and danger, Louise Glck illuminates