Product Description: In close and radical readings of works by Ralph Waldo Emerson, Herman Melville, Emily Dickinson, Robert Frost, Walt Whitman, Flannery O'Connor and Jonathan Edwards, Linda Munk locates the American sublime in the seemingly trivial: in small and common objects, in low and humble persons, and in what the philosopher Stanley Cavell has called the "ordinariness" of American language...read more

Product Description: Renaming Ecstasy brings together poets who have explored experiences of the sacred in ways that are unique to Latin American culture and highlights the richness and complexity of Latino spiritual life. Because of Latin America’s mestizaje of cultures, traditional Catholicism exists alongside other practices of African or indigenous origin...read more

"The most subtly intelligent discussion of Dickinson's spirituality."--Harold Bloom, Genius" . . . a truly literary study in the largest, most humane, sense. Instead of subjecting poems to the distortions of theory, it brings biography, theology, psychology, and cultural history to bear on the intricacies of language, where all the issues of the poet's life and work converge, contend, and seek resolution."--Albert Gelpi, American Literature" . . . insightful readings of many of Dickinson's difficult poems and . . . a significant contribution to Dickinson studies."---Choice"McIntosh shows the power of Dickinson's religious quest in word, in verse, and in truth. He shows that she was much more than an ever-adolescent angry rebel trying to subvert the religious oppression of benighted Amherst neighbors."---Emily Dickinson Journal

Product Description: Book by Delli-Carpini, John

Product Description: Patricia Sloane's study is a detailed reassessment of two of the poet's most provocative works that examine Eliot's allusions and larger purpose. In this close reading of the two poems in which Bleistein appears, Sloane shows that Burbank is an intricate derivation of Dante's Inferno...read more

Product Description: Book by Bodo, Murray

Product Description: Patricia Sloane's study is a detailed reassessment of two of the poet's most provocative works that examine Eliot's allusions and larger purpose. In this close reading of the two poems in which Bleistein appears, Sloane shows that Burbank is an intricate derivation of Dante's Inferno...read more

Product Description: Book by Kirschten, Robert

Product Description: In our mid-to-late twentieth century secular society, a most pressing theological question is, Where does the dimension of the sacred reside? The question is posed here through the poetic worlds of James Wright, Anne Sexton, and Galway Kinnell, each a winner of the Pulitzer Prize...read more

Product Description: In close and radical readings of works by Ralph Waldo Emerson, Herman Melville, Emily Dickinson, Robert Frost, Walt Whitman, Flannery O'Connor and Jonathan Edwards, Linda Munk locates the American sublime in the seemingly trivial: in small and common objects, in low and humble persons, and in what the philosopher Stanley Cavell has called the "ordinariness" of American language...read more

Product Description: An event of rare literary distinction, this book records the conjunction between two distinguished American poets, illuminating not only their work and their connection but also the deep strain of pantheistic mysticism in the American tradition...read more