Description:
The most interesting tensions and ambitions of twentieth-century American poetry intersect in one resonant word: voice. The term "poetic voice" emphasizes poetry's reliance on sound, which is prominent in ethnic American writings, new formalism, and...
Brief description: Lesley Wheeler is Professor and Department Head of English at Washington and Lee University. She is the author of The Poetics of Enclosure: American Women Poets from Dickinson to Dove and Scholarship Girl (poems).
Review Quotes:
This is a fine study which demonstrates the innovative ways poets have tested the limits of poetry and the relationship between poet and audience.... As a teacher, reader, and writer of poetry who is watching the poetry community fragment and stagnate in unproductive ways, I find Wheeler's study an important contribution to the conversation that I hope will provide a framework by which we may incorporate these many differing methods of performing poetic voice.
--Heidi Czerwiec "North Dakota Quarterly"