Reviews for The Life of Poetry

The average rating for The Life of Poetry based on 2 reviews is 5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2011-06-06 00:00:00 Feg Rfhjgndf Wow. I'm going to use so much in here when I have to defend poetry and why it matters. "Why is it feared?" Rukeyser asks. "It demands full consciousness..."

Review # 2 was written on 2020-11-22 00:00:00 Charles Brooks In a Dark House "Two on the stairs in a house where they had loved : mounting, and the steps a long ascent before them brown: a single step creaking high in the flight; the turn : the quiet house and the cheese-yellow walls shadowed by night, dark; and the unlit lamps along the wall. Dusk piles in old house-corners rapidly. Shade grows where corners round to flights of stairs again. Evening accumulates under the treads of mounting stairs." ... "He turns his face to her, walk unbroken. Her face questioning turns: there is no help for each in the other. There are no eyes on them. The shaft is empty of voices, all but the creaking step, regularly in the flights recurring, preknown, dreaded that sound. There is no face that he can see but hers. She knows his look, and has known it for a long time. The creak of one step is a punctuating rhyme."