After the Reunion: PoemsUniversity of Arkansas Press, 1994 M06 1 - 73 pages After the Reunion is an intensely lyrical collection of love poems and elegies from “the most expansive and moving poet to come out of the American Midwest since James Wright,” as Marilyn Hacker has described him. In these quiet, powerful, and eloquent poems, David Baker explores the kinship of love to loss, discovering that each is an inevitable component of the other. The final movement of the book is a unification of these two modes and becomes a celebration of continuities, kinships, and renewals. |
Contents
AN ONTOLOGICAL CRITIC | 3 |
FREUDAND THE ANALYSIS OF POETRY | 43 |
SOME NOTES ON POPULAR AND UNPOPULAR ART | 73 |
TENSION IN POETRY | 85 |
THE AUDIBLE READING OF POETRY | 101 |
19121950 | 123 |
PURE AND IMPURE POETRY | 143 |
THE LYRIC | 171 |
REFLECTIONS ON POETRY AND THE ROLE OF THE POET | 181 |
THE ISOLATION OF MODERN POETRY | 193 |
POETS CRITICS AND READERS | 205 |
HOW DOES A POEM MEAN? | 223 |
BIBLIOGRAPHY | 237 |
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