This book treats an important but neglected metaphor in recent poetry--that of the public monument. Michael North uses the monument, chosen by the poets themselves as an analogy for the poem, to address the problem of the role of the writer in this century, balancing the public aspirations of modern poets against the constraints of modernist aesthetics.
- ISBN10 0801417252
- ISBN13 9780801417252
- Publish Date 1 January 1985
- Publish Status Out of Stock
- Out of Print 7 May 2002
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Cornell University Press
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 262
- Language English