The Beautiful Lesson of the I

by Frances Brent, Rachel Hadas (Foreword)

"The rightness and precision in poem after poem correspond to the quiet authority of a voice that issues from painstaking observation, not from improvisation or anecdote. May Swenson would have admired and enjoyed this collection—as I do."
—Rachel Hadas

The Beautiful Lesson of the I is a collection of finely made poems by an accomplished poet. It will reward the scholar and the student of poetry, as well as the reader looking for the simple pleasures of poetic insight authentically felt.

Winner of the Swenson Poetry Award 2005.

Genres: Poetry

80 pages, Hardcover

First published July 31, 2005

Reviews

[Janée Baugher · Rating 5 out of 5]

So lovely and cryptic. Small, quiet poems with huge consequences. A reminder to abandon clarity when the muse asks you to write authentically from your imagination, in the spirit of lyricism.