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  title info:
    title: So this is what it feels like
    sub title: empathy in the poetry of James Wright
  title info:
    title: Empathy in the poetry of James Wright
  name:
    name part: Scheffler, Adam
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
    role:
      role term: aut
    role:
      role term: http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: lau
    date issued: 2026
    copyright date: 2026
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    form: regular print
    extent: xiii, 191 pages ; 23 cm
  abstract: "James Wright (1927-80) was considered one of the major poets of his era, winning the Pulitzer Prize in 1972, even though the intense emotion of his work could prove divisive. So This Is What It Feels Like, a new critical study by poet and critic Adam Scheffler, makes a renewed case for Wright's importance by examining how his empathy for other people gives meaning to his poems. Raised in the poor factory town of Martins Ferry, Ohio, during the Great Depression, Wright often wrote about struggling working-class Ohioans, as well as about suffering and marginalized people in Appalachia and the Midwest. Moving chronologically through Wright's career, Scheffler reveals that the author's intense empathy for these people challenged his poetic imagination in ways that often altered the form of a poem midway through, sometimes forcing him to invent a new style that would capture the resilient humanity of his subjects. So This Is What It Feels Like provides a renewed appreciation for Wright's art and how it expands the social capabilities of lyric poetry"-- Provided by publisher.
  table of contents: Introduction. Sentimentality vs. empathy -- The mill -- a biographical opening -- The early poems -- Watershed poems -- Two poems, then a pause to take stock -- American failures and Wright's ambivalence -- To fuse force and kindness -- Craft, gifts, and secrets -- Three poems -- Honey and Against empathy -- Conclusion. Two deer -- A final word.
  note: Adam Scheffler.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Wright, James
      name part: 1927-1980
    topic: Criticism and interpretation
  subject:
    topic: Empathy in literature
  subject:
    topic: American poetry
    temporal: 20th century
    topic: History and criticism
  subject:
    topic: Empathie dans la littérature
  subject:
    topic: Poésie américaine
    temporal: 20e siècle
    topic: Histoire et critique
  classification: PS3573.R5358 Z875 2026
  classification: 811/.54
  related item:
    title info:
      title: So this is what it feels like
    name:
      name part: Scheffler, Adam
    origin info:
      publisher: Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, 2026
    identifier: (DLC) 2026004027
  identifier: 9780807186084
  identifier: 0807186082
  identifier: 9780807186497
  identifier: 9780807186503
  identifier: 2026004026
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 260224
    record change date: 20260720100518.7
    record identifier: in00005789232
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng