Working Time: Essays on Poetry, Culture, and Travel

Poets on Poetry

by Jane Miller

Working Time collects essays by prize-winning poet Jane Miller on the subjects of poetry, travel, and culture. The discussions of contemporary poetry begin with excursions into geography, where language literally “takes shape.” Each essay is set in a landscape, where the notion of travel as a poetic experience, from the American Southwest to places in Italy, France, and Spain, is explored.
 
The essays consider notions of time, duration, narrative, documentary, and history in American poetry, and view poetry in the light of developments in feminism, postmodern theory, and contemporary poetic practice. In addition to poetry, Miller investigates a range of cultural products and art forms, including film, video, photography, painting, sculpture, music, and the Madonna phenomenon.
 

Genres: Poetry, Nonfiction

162 pages, Paperback

First published March 1, 1992

About the author

Librarian Note: There is more than one author in the Goodreads database with this name. This is Jane^^^^^Miller