Seeing in the Dark: The Poetry of Phyllis Webb

Poet Phyllis Webb initiated new ways of seeing into the cultural ‘dark’ of Western thought. By blurring the axis between ‘light’ and ‘dark’, she redefined in positive terms women’s subjectivity and sexuality, which are traditionally assigned ‘dark’ negative values. Pauline Butling offers important new ways of reading one of Canada’s finest poets. Seeing in the Dark is essential introductory material for the general reader and provides provocative penetrating analysis for literary scholars.