SOURCE: “Blood Taboo: A Response to Margaret Atwood's ‘Lives of the Poets’,” in Mid-American Review, Vol. 12, No. 2, 1992, pp. 111–15.
In the following essay, Nelson considers the poetic language of Atwood's “Lives of the Poets.”
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