The essays are eminently readable, foregoing critical theory in favor of a deep engagement with poetics….poetry readers should find the book wonderfully engaging, enlightening, and at times, lyrical.

-Publishers Weekly

Writerly know-how that brings poems back to their lyrical roots in music and genre so that readers even of familiar poems will hear a voice that calls them to something beyond and yet still intimate to themselves.

-The Bloomsbury Review

Radiant Lyre refreshes and deepens our reading of lyric poetry. It illuminates poetic thinking. It is a rare critical book--at once artful, pragmatic, and radiant.

-Edward Hirsch

Radiant Lyre is a book of happy immediacy--as if these seven poets decided to put on a pot of coffee and stay up talking, with much knowledge and enthusiasm, about poems all night.

-Susan Stewart

Excellent anthology of essays on the lyric.

-Dimitrios Kalantzis, American Book Review

REVIEWS

• Publishers Weekly
• Boston Review
• Ron Slate

ESSAYS

• Myopic Keats, Kenyon Review
• Meretricious Kisses
• Whitman in Baghdad, The Virginia Quarterly
• A Mind for Metaphors, The Virginia Quarterly
• The Erotic Poems of E.E. Cummings, Poems Out Loud

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