Sheaf of Leaves: Literary Memoirs by Lewis Turco "If you want to know what it has meant --- and has felt like --- to have been an American poet during the past half century, you could not do better than to begin with Lewis Turco's memoirs. Even Whitman, from whom Turco takes his title, comes in for a severe re-evaluation, and many figures living and even dead will doubtless wince under the scrutiny of Turco's clear eye." --- R. S. Gwynn
Sheaf of Leaves: Literary Memoirs by Lewis Turco "If you want to know what it has meant --- and has felt like --- to have been an American poet during...
Lewis Putnam Turco is well-known in the literary culture of the United States as an award-winning poet, author of A Book of Fears which received the first annual Bordighera Bi-Lingual Poetry Prize; as a literary scholar, author of The Book of Forms: A Handbook of Poetics, known for decades as the poet's Bible; as an award-winning critic, author of Visions and Revisions of American Poetry, recipient of the Melville Cane Award of the Poetry Society of America, and as the founder and original director of both the Cleveland State University Poetry Center and the Program in Writing Arts of the...
Lewis Putnam Turco is well-known in the literary culture of the United States as an award-winning poet, author of A Book of Fears which received the f...
The author traces his ancestry on his mother's side to the Putnam family of Salem Village, Massachusetts, which was involved in the New England witch hunt that brought to a close the Age of Witchcraft in 1692.
The author traces his ancestry on his mother's side to the Putnam family of Salem Village, Massachusetts, which was involved in the New England witch ...
