The most interesting tensions and ambitions of twentieth-century American poetry intersect in one resonant word: voice. The term "poetic voice" emphasizes poetry's reliance on sound, which is prominent in ethnic American writings, new formalism, and...
Lesley Wheeler is Professor and Department Head of English at Washington and Lee University. She is the author of The Poetics of Enclosure: American Women Poets from Dickinson to Dove and Scholarship Girl (poems).
