{"product_id":"soul-says-on-recent-poetry-9780674821460","title":"Soul Says: On Recent Poetry","description":"\u003cp\u003eJoin Professor Helen Vendler in her course lecture on the Yeats poem \"Among School Children\". View her insightful and passionate analysis along with a condensed reading and student comments on the course. To know the poetry of our time  to look through its lenses and filters  is to see our lives illuminated. In these eloquent essays on recent American  British  and Irish poetry  Helen Vendler shows us contemporary life and culture capturedin lyric form by some of our most celebrated poets. An incomparable reader of poetry  Vendler explains its power; it is  she says  the voice of the soul rather than the socially marked self speaking directly to us through the stylization of verse. \"Soul Says \" the title of a poem by Jorie Graham  is thus the name of this collection. In essays on Seamus Heaney  Donald Davie  Allen Ginsberg  John Ashbery  Rita Dove  Jorie Graham  and others  Vendler makes difficult poetry accessible. She reveals the idiosyncratic nature of lyric form  and points out the artistic choices present in even the simplest texts. Vendler examines the use of abstraction in lyric poems; considers what readers seek and receive from verse; describes the role of such stylistic devices as compression  structural dynamics  and syntactic ordering; and renders a wide variety of poetic styles meaningful. Through her perceptive eyes we see how lyric poetry  speaking with natural musicality and rhythm  can by arrangement  pacing  metaphor  and tone create symbol from fact-and fill us with new understanding. In these direct and engaged commentaries  she explores the force  beauty  and intellectual complexity of contemporary lyric verse.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45280010764341,"sku":"ByrdShop_0674821467","price":173.2,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780674821460.jpg?v=1780617565","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/soul-says-on-recent-poetry-9780674821460","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}