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- Title
On Priscilla Sneff's "O Woolly City."
- Authors
Baker, David
- Abstract
This article presents information on Priscilla Sneff's book "O Woolly City." Sneff is the 2004 winner of the Kenyon Review Prize in Poetry and the subject of this latest New Voices feature. The work here conveys the tangible wisdom of a long foreground, the experience of a mature writer for whom complexity is anything but a glib or raw show, a writer for whom the poetic occasion arises not from assignment but authenticity and purpose. The enlivened juxtaposition of formal discourse and the "savvy," hooting colloquial, the intersection of intimate knowledge and urbane prescience, the wit and linguistic pleasure, these are some of Sneff's not-so-secret secrets.
- Subjects
CRITICISM; O Woolly City (Book); SNEFF, Priscilla; POETS; POETRY (Literary form); LITERARY style; WISDOM
- Publication
Kenyon Review, 2005, Vol 27, Issue 2, p1
- ISSN
0163-075X
- Publication type
Literary Criticism