Vise and shadow : essays on the lyric imagination, poetry, art, and culture /
by Peter Balakian.
- Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, 2015.
- xii, 279 pages, 6 color plates : ill. ; 23 cm.
Notes: p. 273-279
Cont.: 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.
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