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
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