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Argument Song: Sources Silences in Poetry
Argument Song Sources Silences in Poetry Author:Stanley Plumly Stanley Plumly is one of his generation's most important poets. He was born in Barnesville, Ohio, in 1939, and grew up in the lumber and farming regions of Virginia and Ohio. Writing in the Atlantic, Peter Davidson said of his work, "Plumly's rich, dense poems give off a special fragrance, the incense of the English Romantic movement mingling ... more »with the forest odors from the Old Northwest Territory between the Mississippi, the Ohio, and the Great Lakes." This volume collects fifteen of Plumly's [previously published] essays on poetry and art, including the seminal "Chapter and Verse," "Sentimental Forms," and "The Abrupt Edge." Meditating on poems by Keats, Stevens, James Wright, Plath, and Matthews, on Emily Brönte's prose, and paintings by Whistler, Plumly returns again and again to essential matters: the impulses, occasions, and places out of which art arises and the forms by which imagination gives it shape.« less