American Originality: Essays on Poetry David Wheatley Language is on the loose

Language is on the loose in these poems

and even somewhat beyond

everyday detail is revealed in a new and brilliant light

this revised collection is a continued celebration

American Originality: Essays on Poetry David Wheatley Language is on the looseThe probing essays collected in American Originality scrutinise the terms we use to think about recent American poetry, its antecedents (not just Whitman and Dickinson but Ovid, Rilke, Thomas Mann, Keats) and its future, questioning how we distinguish between work that is unique and work that is original, carefully delineating the allure of both 'shared traditions' and 'the cult of illogic'. Attentive always to risk and danger, Louise Glck illuminates