Selected essays and reviews
By: by Hayden Carruth
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Copper Canyon Press
Published: 1996
Place of publication: Port Townsend, WA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 363
ISBN-13: 9781556591075
Subjects: English literature; Poetics; History and criticism; Poetry; Geschichte; American poetry; Lyrik; Aufsatzsammlung
Description: Essays written over the course of nearly fifty years by one of the most independent and insightful reviewers of American poetry. The author insists that poetry must be textured into daily life for the sake of both. "The essays celebrate craft, ardor, and that resilient material, the word", says Adrienne Rich, herself a poet.
Notes: Also issued online.
Table of contents: title: Dr. Williams's Paterson; title: Stevens as essayist; title: Write little; do it well; title: Without the inventions of sorrow; title: To fashion the transitory; title: The closest permissible approximation; title: Poets without prophecy; title: Multiple disguises; title: Pursy Windhum Lucigen; title: Upon which to rejoice; title: Ezra Pound and the great style; title: Materials from life; title: Delmore, 1913-1966; title: A meaning of Robert Lowell; title: A turn in the rhyme; title: Melancholy monument; title: Spenser and his modern critics; title: The writer's situation; title: A focus, a crown; title: Poet of civility; title: Seriousness and the inner poem; title: Fallacies of silence; title: A location of J.V. Cunningham; title: Robert Frost; title: The sun's progeny; title: Italian sensibility; title: Pact of blood; title: The question of poetic form; title: The act of love : poetry and personality; title: The man in the box at Walden; title: Our man in Twit'nam; title: Three notes on the versewriting of Alexander Pope; title: Chants, oracles, body-rhythms; title: The spirit of Lo Lenga d'òc; title: Notes on meter; title: Notes on metaphor; title: With respect to the infuriating pervasiveness of optimism; title: Paul Goodman and the grand community; title: Richard Hugo; title: David Ignatow; title: Tom McGrath is harvesting the snow; title: The blues as poetry; title: Mystery and expressiveness; title: Duncan's dream; title: What does organic mean; title: Lear; title: Emily Dickinson's unexpectedness; title: Essays for Wendell; title: James Laughlin; title: The nature of art; title: Further note on Lear; title: God sniffed and said.