Jacqueline de Weever is professor emerita of Brooklyn College, CUNY, where she taught English medieval literature for more than 25 years. Her poems have appeared in the Brooklyn Review, Poetry Depth Quarterly, Timber Creek Review and many other poetry publications. She lives in Brooklyn, New York.

“It is de Weever’s obvious enjoyment of the interplay of texts, along with her facility with the languages that make this such a pleasure to read.”—Reference & Research Book News.

• Table of ContentsPrefaceIntroduction: A “Feast of Tongues”One.The Prologue: Voices in the GardenTwo.Aggressive Voices: Debate and FlytingThree.Contradictory VoicesFour.Interior Voices of ­Self-­ExaminationFive.The Failed Voice: Art vs. MightSix.The Double Dowry of Multiple VoicesAppendix of TextsChapter NotesBibliographyIndex

Jacqueline de Weever is professor emerita of Brooklyn College, CUNY, where she taught English medieval literature for more than 25 years. Her poems have appeared in the Brooklyn Review, Poetry Depth Quarterly, Timber Creek Review and many other poetry publications. She lives in Brooklyn, New York.

“It is de Weever’s obvious enjoyment of the interplay of texts, along with her facility with the languages that make this such a pleasure to read.”—Reference & Research Book News.

• Table of ContentsPrefaceIntroduction: A “Feast of Tongues”One.The Prologue: Voices in the GardenTwo.Aggressive Voices: Debate and FlytingThree.Contradictory VoicesFour.Interior Voices of ­Self-­ExaminationFive.The Failed Voice: Art vs. MightSix.The Double Dowry of Multiple VoicesAppendix of TextsChapter NotesBibliographyIndex

Jacqueline de Weever is professor emerita of Brooklyn College, CUNY, where she taught English medieval literature for more than 25 years. Her poems have appeared in the Brooklyn Review, Poetry Depth Quarterly, Timber Creek Review and many other poetry publications. She lives in Brooklyn, New York.

“It is de Weever’s obvious enjoyment of the interplay of texts, along with her facility with the languages that make this such a pleasure to read.”—Reference & Research Book News.

• Table of ContentsPrefaceIntroduction: A “Feast of Tongues”One.The Prologue: Voices in the GardenTwo.Aggressive Voices: Debate and FlytingThree.Contradictory VoicesFour.Interior Voices of ­Self-­ExaminationFive.The Failed Voice: Art vs. MightSix.The Double Dowry of Multiple VoicesAppendix of TextsChapter NotesBibliographyIndex