<p>Insouciant serious funny and profound <em>Climate of Opinion: Sigmund Freud in Poetry</em> is the book to keep by your couch.&nbsp; This panoply of poems unfolds like an analytic session from family dynamics through personal antics to the frustrating delicately calibrated patient-therapist exchange.&nbsp; Savvy anthologist Irene Willis invites everyone to Freud&rsquo;s poetry party from H.D. and Anna Freud to W.H. Auden and Philip Larkin.&nbsp; 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&mdash;just like the surprise insight at the end of a forty-five minute hour. <em>Climate of Opinion</em> proves that psychic play is more than matched by the poetic imagination.<br />Molly Peacock author of <em>The Analyst: Poems</em>.</p><p>From the Introduction by Irene Willis:</p><p>&nbsp;This book grew organically.&nbsp; I read poetry all the time B old books new books literary journals B and sometime last year began to notice that many poems mentioned Freud by name.&nbsp; Poetry had always reflected Freudian concepts of course but suddenly poets seemed to be more conscious of them.&nbsp; Was Freud having as they say &quot;a moment&quot; again?&nbsp; Perhaps.&nbsp; At lunch one day with a couple of psychoanalyst friends I mentioned this and suggested casually B yes really casually just as a topic of conversation B&quot;Someone ought to do an anthology of poems that mention Freud.&quot;</p><p>One of the best parts for me of this project was not only gathering the poems but the background reading I did while getting ready for the first harvest.&nbsp; In the process I acquired copies of many fascinating articles and a whole shelf of books about this man who in my own thinking now is more important than ever.&nbsp; More about that in the Afterword.&nbsp; As they often say in restaurants before you pick up your fork &quot;Enjoy!&quot;</p>
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