Cover of The given and the made

The given and the made

by Helen Hennessy Vendler

1995 136 pages eng

How does a poet repeatedly over a lifetime make art out of an arbitrary assignment of fate? By asking this question of the work of four American poets - two men of the postwar generation, two young women writing today - Helen Vendler suggests a fruitful way of looking at a poet's career and a new wa…

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