Elemental Natures: Selected Lyrics, Sequences, and Artwork with New Poems and the Essay "The American Voice" (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781532098314)

Elemental Natures draws together thirty years of poetic practice, with substantial selections from six previous books of poetry, including the sequence "No One Comes For Penelope- ", a retelling of the end of the Odyssey that teases the reader with conflicting views of time and reality. The essay, "The American Voice", looks at three iconic American poets, Walt Whitman, Robinson Jeffers, and Robert Lowell, emphasizing an entirely different viewpoint of what is unique to the American voice in poetry, focusing on its largesse, passion, excess, and ability to recover in confronting and making sense of our lives. His poetry is central to his creative output, work variously called "inspiring" "visionary" "vibrant" "post- Keatsian" "passionate" "unabashed by sensuality and feeling"; "a voice beyond epoch ... but rooted in Los Angeles", dedicated "to the welfare of planet earth", work variously compared to Browning, Auden, and in its freedom, Pablo Neruda.

Author: Lance Lee
ISBN-10: 1532098316
ISBN-13: 9781532098314
Publisher: iUniverse
Language: English
Published: 09/14/2020
Pages: 410
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.66lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.06d