Reviews for Keeping Up Her Geography: Women's Writing and Geocultural Space in Twentieth-Century U.S. Literature and Culture

The average rating for Keeping Up Her Geography: Women's Writing and Geocultural Space in Twentieth-Century U.S. Literature and Culture based on 2 reviews is 3.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2009-02-14 00:00:00 Shawn Brandstetter I really enjoyed his book. It helped me to think about Frost. I was particularly interested in some of Poirier's ideas about Frost and irony. I had been reading a good deal of Frost lately and was really ripe to read about him. His line is remarkable. So innovative. As a friend of mine says, the freshest iambic line since Milton. How to describe it, that is the trick. One wants to talk about Frost's line as if it were ruder or more primitive, partially because he uses enjambment so much less than his predecessors whose iambic lines are recognizable as Miltonic. I'm thinking of Keats, Stevenes, and Crane. There is so much to say. I'll get back to this sometime.

Review # 2 was written on 2008-08-17 00:00:00 Lori Hagele I actually have not read this book so much as I've sampled it deeply, but I can say without any doubt that it is a phenomenally incisive and interesting look at Frost's work. Poirier makes me feel ineloquent and dull, and he is unparalleled when it comes to deciphering Frost's sometimes stunning complexity. Not very light reading, nor for those who aren't mildly (or majorly) obsessed with Frost - the only reason that I've left it at four stars.