Three Talks

Metaphor and Metonymy, Meaning and Mystery, Magic and Morality

By: Brenda Hillman, Brian Teare

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Hardcover | 27 September 2024

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Three Talks is the first prose collection by the award-winning poet and educator Brenda Hillman. These short essays on six M's of the art of poetry make the form accessible in a novel way, exploring words that might appear incompatible but become dancing partners in Hillman's artistic vision: metaphor and metonymy; meaning and mystery; magic and morality.

First delivered as a series of talks at the University of Virginia, the essays maintain a casual, intimate tone. A consummate artist and technician, Hillman explores a wide array of poetic examples, focusing on method, subject matter, and inspiration to demonstrate how the skills offered by poetry have become critically important for our present moment.

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PRAISE FOR THE AUTHOR: Hillman has charted her own unusual course, borrowing things--a mixture of conversational and high-lyric diction, an emphasis on language's materiality, an interest in metaphysics and occult knowledge, and a passionate environmental and political consciousness--from pretty much every major poetic movement of the last century. -- "Boston Review"

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