The Errancy (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Jorie Graham
- First Published: 1997
- Type of Work: Poetry
- Genres: Poetry, Lyric poetry
- Subjects: Nature, Dreams, Storms, Gods or goddesses, Bible, biblical imagery, or biblical symbolism, Floods
Deeply oxymoronic, this latest selection of Jorie Graham’s lyrics is dedicated to the exploration of nothing less than heroic error. The reconciling of the vibrant contradiction of that phrase—heroic error—is what energizes her many voices in these poems. Her speakers are all patterned after the knight “errant,” the seeker who must wander to get to his destination, the archetypal quester who haunts the western imagination from Homer’s Odysseus to T. S. Eliot’s implied speaker in The Waste Land (1922).
Any reader new to Graham’s cerebral tone and diction...
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