Voyages over Voices
Critical Essays on Anne Stevenson
Distributed for Liverpool University Press
Voyages over Voices is the first book-length critical exploration of the work of internationally acclaimed American-British poet Anne Stevenson, who has long been regarded as one of the most important contemporary poets on either side of the Atlantic. Bringing together a distinguished list of contributors—including Jay Parini, Carol Rumens, Tim Kendall, and John Lucas—Angela Leighton provides an invaluable contribution to understanding Stevenson's large body of work.
"Anne Stevenson is as big and as great a poet as Plath or Bishop. . . . Leighton's richly rewarding collection makes a significant and invaluable contribution to our knowledge of her work."—Andrew McNeillie, University of Exeter
“Stevenson has produced a large body of work which is at once representative of common contemporary concerns and highly individual. She is a voice for our age and compellingly her own questing and questioning self.”
“Anne Stevenson is as big and as great a poet as Plath or Bishop, as her inclusion in the Library of America underlines, and, significantly, she is more difficult to assess. Leighton’s richly rewarding collection makes a significant and invaluable contribution to our knowledge of her work.”
Acknowledgements
'Making Poetry'
Anne Stevenson
1 'Voyages over voices': Introduction
Angela Leighton
2 The Melting Metaphor
Anne Stevenson
3 'Between us': Letters and Poems of Stevenson and Bishop
Jonathan Ellis
4 Mothers, Mirrors, Doubles: Anne Stevenson's Elegies for Sylvia Plath
Adam Piette
5 Staging Second Thoughts: The Poetry of Anne Stevenson
John Redmond
6 'Making Poetry': The Exemplary Anne Stevenson
John Lucas
7 'A curved adventure': Romanticism and the Poetry of Anne Stevenson
Michael O'Neill
8 The Nature of Anne Stevenson
Jay Parini
9 Anne Stevenson and the Poetry of Place
Sean Pryor
10 Compacting Time: Anne Stevenson's Poems of Memory
Emily R. Grosholz
11 'Not exactly a persona': Pronouns in Anne Stevenson's Poetry
Sara Johnson
12 'To serve a girl on terrible terms': Anne Stevenson's Writing Selves
Emma Jones
13 Talking and Singing: Anne Stevenson's Variations on a Rhythmical Theme
Carol Rumens
14 'Time will erase': Anne Stevenson and Elegy
Tim Kendall
15 Observing the Overhearing: The Anne Stevenson Papers in Cambridge University Library
John Wells
16 Bibliography of Anne Stevenson's Published Works
John Wells
General Index
Index of Stevenson's Works
Literature and Literary Criticism: Poetry
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