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123 pages • first pub 2004 (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780226492506
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 21 November 2005
Description
Poems inspire our trust, argues James Longenbach in this bracing work, because they don't necessarily ask to be trusted. Theirs is the language of self-questioning—metaphors that turn against themselves, syntax that moves one way because it threat...
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123 pages • first pub 2004 (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780226492506
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 21 November 2005
Description
Poems inspire our trust, argues James Longenbach in this bracing work, because they don't necessarily ask to be trusted. Theirs is the language of self-questioning—metaphors that turn against themselves, syntax that moves one way because it threat...