Ebook: Vise and Shadow: Essays on the Lyric Imagination, Poetry, Art, and Culture

Poetry as civilization: Primo Levi and Dante at Auschwitz -- The poem as history -- Ingesting violence: the poetry of witness problem -- Theodore Roethke's lost son and the confessional era -- Hart Crane's Broken tower -- Poet from Kars: Yeghishe Charents and Armenia's modern age -- Collage and its discontents -- Arshile Gorky: from the Armenian genocide to the avant-garde -- The Anatolian embrace: Greeks and Armenians in Elia Kazan's America, America -- Siamanto's bloody news -- Bob Dylan in suburbia -- Writing horizontal: notes toward the poem as space.