Wonderful. . . . Spectacular. . . . You feel the pulse of life, what poetry can bring to us if we let it. --The Philadelphia Inquirer This audacious personal odyssey offers readers a cosmos of possibilities when contemplating what happens once we 'shuffle off...
In arguably his most personal and lasting book, America's most daringly original and controversial critic gives us brief, luminous readings of more than eighty texts by canonical authors-- texts he has had by heart since childhood. Gone are the polemics. Here, instead,...