num_pages: 60
description: 'The Novel' is a booklength poem which examines the privilege of the novelist from the poet's point of view, asking in both astonishment and disappointment: why is the novelist at once the most lordly and common of authors?
language: English
title: The Novel: Poem
titlecomplete: The Novel: Poem (C.I.P. Series: New Directions Paperback; 706)
ratings_count: 13
publisher: New Directions