In Praise of the Impure: Poetry and the Ethical Imagination: Essays, 1980-1991
Autor Alan Shapiroen Limba Engleză Hardback – 15 noi 1993
Alan Shapiro is not only a much-lauded poet but also one of America's most intelligent and clearheaded thinkers about poetry. In Praise of the Impure collects his passionate, rigorously argued essays on the situation of poetry in American culture today.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780810150256
ISBN-10: 0810150255
Pagini: 185
Dimensiuni: 159 x 235 x 20 mm
Greutate: 0.48 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: Northwestern University Press
Colecția Northwestern University Press
ISBN-10: 0810150255
Pagini: 185
Dimensiuni: 159 x 235 x 20 mm
Greutate: 0.48 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: Northwestern University Press
Colecția Northwestern University Press
Notă biografică
ALAN SHAPIRO is the author of four books of poetry, including Happy Hour, which won the William Carlos Williams Award of the Poetry Society of America, and Covenant. He teaches at the University of North Carolina, Greensboro, and is the recipient of a Lila Wallace-Reader's Digest Writer's Award.
Cuprins
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part 1
The Flexible Rule: The Ethical Imagination
In Praise of the Impure: Narrative Consciousness in Poetry
Part 2
The New Formalism
Some Notes on Free Verse and Meter
Part 3
"Far Lamps At Night": The Poetry of J. V. Cunningham
Some Thoughts on Robert Hass
"Itinerary" by James McMichael
The Liberal Imagination of Robert Pinsky's Explanation of America
"a living to fail": The Case of John Berryman
Part 4
The Dead Alive and Busy
Horace and the Reformation of Creative Writing
The Early Seventies and J. V. Cunningham
Introduction
Part 1
The Flexible Rule: The Ethical Imagination
In Praise of the Impure: Narrative Consciousness in Poetry
Part 2
The New Formalism
Some Notes on Free Verse and Meter
Part 3
"Far Lamps At Night": The Poetry of J. V. Cunningham
Some Thoughts on Robert Hass
"Itinerary" by James McMichael
The Liberal Imagination of Robert Pinsky's Explanation of America
"a living to fail": The Case of John Berryman
Part 4
The Dead Alive and Busy
Horace and the Reformation of Creative Writing
The Early Seventies and J. V. Cunningham
Recenzii
"Shapiro has produced work of such authority and originality that he has permanently enlarged my hopes and expectations for contemporary poetry." —Tom Sleigh, Boston Review
Descriere
Alan Shapiro is not only a much-lauded poet but also one of America's most intelligent and clearheaded thinkers about poetry. In Praise of the Impure collects his passionate, rigorously argued essays on the situation of poetry in American culture today.