Reversing the Spell: New and Selected Poems From: Poetry | Date: August 1, 1998| Author: | Copyright Modern Poetry Association Aug 1998. Provided by ProQuest LLC.Copyright information

Reversing the Spell: New and Selected Poems, by Eleanor Wilner. Copper Canyon Press. $16.oo.

It often seems that some of the notions that we have inherited from the Modernists-Williams's "No ideas but in things," Eliot's "auditory imagination"-have in contemporary workshop culture devolved into the belief that poets ought not think when they write, that poetry is a place where you check your intelligence at the door. If Miller Williams's work is a reaction against this, it is a reaction which is weakened by the fact that Williams seems to have decided to ignore Modernism.

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