by Sam Hazo '49 (Marquette University Press)
The author investigates the visionary nature of poems, their ability
to "startle us into the present and keep us there as long as we
are in their grip." Each essay in the book deals with an aspect
of that visionary nature -- from, Hazo writes," its awe-inspiring
impact" to "its capability of inspiring poets to spring
the locks of falsifying or stultifying forms of expression in
order to say what they feel and see as they actually felt and
saw it."
The author is the founder and director of the International Poetry
Forum in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
(February 2006)
