CLIMATE OF OPINION - Tecno-Libro

insouciant, serious, funny and profound, Climate of Opinion: Sigmund Freud in Poetry is the book to keep by your couch. . This panoply of poems unfolds like an analytic session, from family dynamics through personal antics, to the frustrating, delicately calibrated patient-therapist exchange. . Savvy anthologist irene Willis invites everyone to Freud s poetry party, from H.D. and Anna Freud to W.H. Auden and Philip Larkin. . Willis calls on the next generation of poets, too, from James Cummins and Lynn Emanuel to Louise Gluck, with a brilliant finale by David Lehman just like the surprise insight at the end of a forty-five minute hour. Climate of Opinion proves that psychic play is more than matched by the poetic imagination. Molly Peacock, author of The Analyst: Poems . From the introduction by irene Willis: .This book grew organically. . i read poetry all the time B old books, new books, literary journals B and sometime last yea