The American Sublime: Two Poetry Collections
Gasda, Matthew / Swope, Kelly / Canel, Jonathan
The American Sublime offers a lyrical argument for the centrality of imaginative power in contemporary life and for the restorative power of poetry itself. The book expands upon the modern tradition of Hart Crane, Wallace Stevens, A.R. Ammons, and John Ashbery, it contends that meaning is not something that we construct from rational principles, but rather, that meaning is something that we recover from a deep awareness of our emotions and our...