In the blue pharmacy
Subtitle: essays on poetry and other transformations
By: Marianne Boruch.
Publisher: Trinity University Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: San Antonio,Tex
Language: eng
Number of pages: 218
Subjects: Poetry.; Poetry -- Authorship.; American poetry -- History and criticism.
Description: "Sixteen essays on poets and poetry, the writing life, and how the imagination works with mystery and surprise in a variety of poets from Elizabeth Bishop to Theodore Roethke"--Provided by publisher.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 207-213) and index.
Table of contents: title: Line and room; title: Decoys; title: Williams and the bomb; title: Poets in cars; title: Edson's head; title: The shape of his melancholy; title: Three spirits; title: Becoming "Epithalamion"; title: Rhetoric and mystery; title: Two veils; title: Original shell; title: The end of a century; title: Worlds old and new; title: Bishop's blue pharmacy; title: Poetry's over and over; title: The rage to reorder.