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The Beautiful Lesson of the I (Swenson Poetry Award)
The Beautiful Lesson of the I - Swenson Poetry Award Author:Frances Brent, Rachel Hadas The Beautiful Lesson of the I is a collection of finely made poems by an accomplished poet. It will reward the scholar and the student of poetry, as well as the reader looking for the simple pleasures of poetic insight authentically felt. Frances Brent’s poems have appeared in The New Yorker, Notre Dame Review, Yale Review, and in many other ... more »journals. Her work is known for its delicacy and detail, evoking both the Symbolists and some of the Asian poets who inspired them. She includes May Swenson among her influences, too; like Swenson, Brent often steadies her gaze on the material world, delighting in its humor as well as its occasional horror.« less