A Goyen Companion: Appreciations of a Writer's Writer

A substantial proof of an essential fact of the American literary scene canonization only occurs after death. The collection of 11 scholarly essays and ten tributes celebrates the posthumous entry of Goyen into the postmodern halls of academic approval, analyzing the texts of The House of Breath , The Fair Sister , Come, the Restorer , and In a Farther Country while generally introducing the salient themes and concerns of both poems and fiction. The tributes are an interesting addition to the reader and feature reminiscences and homages by luminaries such as Madison Smartt Bell, James Merrill, Joyce Carol Oates, and W.D. Snodgrass. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.