New World Poetics: Nature and the Adamic Imagination of Whitman, Neruda, and Walcott

by George B . Handley (Author)

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  2010

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  From Walt Whitman's call for a poetry of New World possibility, to Pablo Neruda's invocation of an 'American love', to Derek Walcott's poetic ironies of an American epic, the adamic imagination of their poetry invokes the foundational powers of language before a natural world already transformed by human violence. This work looks at these poets.