Rhetoric and Sexuality: The Poetry of Hart Crane, Elizabeth Bishop, and James Merrill [Hardcover]

Rhetoric and Sexuality explores the poetry of Crane, Bishop and Merrill. Nickowitz combines a rhetorical and thematic interpretation, employing close readings and the critical lens of Freudian and Kleinian psychoanalysis, to illustrate a new way to read American poetry.Introduction Chrysalis Unbound: Poems of Origin and Initiation Anatomy of a Mother Burnt Matches, or The Art of Love AfterwardPETER NICKOWITZ is Assistant Professor of English at the City University of New York, USA.