In Show Me Your Environment, a penetrating yet personable collection of critical essays, David Baker explores how a poem works, how a poet thinks, and how the art of poetry has evolved—and is still evolving as a highly diverse, spacious, and inclusive art form. The opening essays offer contemplations on the "environment" of poetry from thoughts on physical places and regions as well as the inner aesthetic environment. Next, Baker looks at the highly distinctive achievements and styles of poets ranging from George Herbert and Emily Dickinson through poets writing today. Finally, he takes joy in reading individual poems—from the canonical to the contemporary; simply and closely.
| ISBN: | 9780472052257 |
| Publication date: | 22nd January 2014 |
| Author: | David Baker |
| Publisher: | The University of Michigan Press an imprint of University of Michigan Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 210 pages |
| Series: | Poets on Poetry |
| Genres: |
Literary essays Literary studies: poetry and poets |
In Show Me Your Environment, a penetrating yet personable collection of critical essays, David Baker explores how a poem works, how a poet thinks, and how the art of poetry has evolved—and is still evolving as a highly diverse, spacious, and inclusive art form. The opening essays offer contemplations on the "environment" of poetry from thoughts on physical places and regions as well as the inner aesthetic environment. Next, Baker looks at the highly distinctive achievements and styles of poets ranging from George Herbert and Emily Dickinson through poets writing today. Finally, he takes joy in reading individual poems—from the canonical to the contemporary; simply and closely.
Show Me Your Environment features in the following genres: Literary essays, Literary studies: poetry and poets
Show Me Your Environment is available in Hardback, Paperback
Show Me Your Environment was written by David Baker and published by The University of Michigan Press an imprint of University of Michigan Press
Show Me Your Environment has 210 pages
Yes it is part of Poets on Poetry series