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Robert Hayden
Essays on the Poetry
Av Laurence Goldstein, Robert Chrisman
Häftad, 2013
508 kr
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This collection of essays by leading critics and poets charts Robert Hayden’s growing reputation as a major writer of some of the twentieth century’s most important poems on African-American themes, including the famed “Middle Passage” and “Frederick Douglass.” The essays illuminate the themes and …
From Sorrow's Well
The Poetry of Hayden Carruth
Häftad, 2015
421 kr
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Hayden Carruth survived isolation, mental health problems, and long struggle with drink and smoke to produce a vision of modern poetry rooted in the New England tradition but entirely his own. Many feel his best poems emerged from the isolation of rural Vermont, and his poems often are concerned …
Everywoman Her Own Theology
On the Poetry of Alicia Suskin Ostriker
Av Martha Nell Smith, Julie R. Enszer
Häftad, 2018
439 kr
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Alicia Ostriker’s artistic and intellectual productions as a poet, critic, and essayist over the past 50 years are protean and have been profoundly influential to generations of readers, writers, and critics. In all her writings, both the feminist and the human engage fiercely with the material and …
Allure of Grammar
The Glamour of Angie Estes's Poetry
Häftad, 2019
439 kr
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Of Angie Estes, the poet and critic Stephanie Burt has written that she “has created some of the most beautiful verbal objects in the world.” In The Allure of Grammar, Doug Rutledge gathers insightful responses to the full range of Estes’s work—from a review of her first chapbook to a reading of a …
Jane Cooper
A Radiance of Attention
Av Martha Collins, Celia Bland
Häftad, 2019
439 kr
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For her five volumes of poetry over the course of her career, Jane Cooper (1924–2007) was deeply admired by her contemporaries, and teaching at Sarah Lawrence College for nearly forty years, she served as a mentor to many aspiring poets. Her elegant, honest, and emotionally and formally precise …
Till One Day the Sun Shall Shine More Brightly
The Poetry and Prose of Donald Revell
Häftad, 2020
508 kr
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Since the publication of From the Abandoned Cities in 1983, Donald Revell has been among the more consistent influencers in American poetry and poetics. Yet, his work has achieved the status it has—his honors include fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Guggenheim Foundation …
We Rode the Rhythms as One
On the Poetry of Etheridge Knight
Häftad, 2026
250 kr
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We Rode the Rhythms as One offers readers an immersive journey into the life and legacy of one of America’s most unorthodox and inspiring poets. More than just a literary analysis, this book captures the pulse of Etheridge Knight’s life, weaving together interviews, personal essays, letters, and …
Forrest Gander
Poetry, Translation, Ecology
Av Robert Baker
Häftad, 2026
370 kr
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Pulitzer Prize winner Forrest Gander is widely celebrated as a love poet, a meditative poet, and a poet of ecological awareness. He has always been a writer drawn to cross-cultural encounter, as active in translation as any poet of his generation. This collection of essays on his work brings …
Anne Carson and the Unknown
Contemporary Perspectives on Poetic Experimentation
Av Helena Van Praet, Christine Wiesenthal
Häftad, 2026
439 kr
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Making art relies on a process of intuitive discovery that begins prior to knowing and overrides intention. Anne Carson and the Unknown delves into the varied ways the contemporary poet and classicist Anne Carson engages with the unknown, both as a philosophical concept and as a method of creative …
Jean Valentine
This-World Company
Av Mohammed Kazim Ali, John Hoppenthaler
Häftad, 2012
439 kr
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Over the course of more than four decades, contemporary American poet Jean Valentine has written eleven books of stunning, spirit-inflected poetry. This collection of essays, assembled over several years by Kazim Ali and John Hoppenthaler, brings together twenty-six pieces on all stages of …
Elizabeth Bishop and Her Art
Av Lloyd Schwartz, Sybil P. Estess
Häftad, 1983
405 kr
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Reviews and essays that focus on this great American poet
On the Poetry of Philip Levine
Stranger to Nothing
Häftad, 1990
361 kr
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Readers and critics alike have applauded Philip Levine's poems for their eloquent and elegiac narrative and their vivas for the dignity of the human spirit. In 1987 Levine received the esteemed Ruth Lilly Prize, given by the Modern Poetry Association and the American Council for the Arts in …
Denise Levertov
Selected Criticism
Av Albert Gelpi
Häftad, 1993
370 kr
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Illuminating reflections on the achievements of poet Denise Levertov
On William Stafford
The Worth of Local Things
Av Tom Andrews
Häftad, 1995
387 kr
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"[His] poems . . . bear witness to both the care and disregard around us--naming the places, catching the shine of the ordinary, pulling the rug out from under vanity and pretension, giving fresh credit to the selfless and decent, acknowledging the inevitable, nudging us toward observant lives and …
On Louise Gluck
Change What You See
Av Joanne Diehl
Häftad, 2005
370 kr
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On Louise Glück features essays by leading critics, poets, and scholars that explore the work of recent U.S. poet laureate Louise Glück.Glück, author of nine books of poetry, including the Pulitzer Prize-winning The Wild Iris, is noted for her searing honesty and compelling first-person personae. …
On Frank Bidart
Fastening the Voice to the Page
Häftad, 2007
404 kr
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Frank Bidart has always defied expectation and convention without ever sounding conscious of such an effort or veering into self-parody. Bidart’s poetry is often all at once deeply generous of spirit, terrifyingly beautiful, and verging on the ecstatic in its glimpse of great turbulence just …
Charles Simic
Essays on the Poetry
Av Bruce Weigl
Häftad, 2008
352 kr
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Charles Simic, recently named Poet Laureate of the United States, is one of America's most popular---and enigmatic---contemporary poets. Set apart from his contemporaries by a particularly inclusive and worldly vision, his is a poetic voice singular in our time for its quality of empathy, for its …
Anne Carson
Ecstatic Lyre
Häftad, 2015
439 kr
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Anne Carson’s works re-think genre in some of the most unusual and nuanced ways that few writers ever attempt, from her lyric essays, enigmatic poems, and novels in verse to further forays into video and comics and collaborative performance. Carson’s pathbreaking translations of Ancient Greek …
Mad Heart Be Brave
Essays on the Poetry of Agha Shahid Ali
Häftad, 2017
508 kr
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Born and raised in Kashmir, Agha Shahid Ali (1949–2001) came to the United States in the mid-1970s to pursue graduate study in literature; by the mid-1980s, he had begun to establish himself as one of the most important American poets of the late 20th century. Mad Heart Be Brave: On the Poetry of …
Reading Adrienne Rich
Reviews and Re-Visions, 1951-81
Häftad, 1984
439 kr
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Celebrates and interprets the work of this major poet and feminist theorist
On the Poetry of Allen Ginsberg
Av Lewis Hyde
Häftad, 1984
303 kr
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Essays and reviews that trace the changes in Ginsberg's career and in his poetry
Robert Creeley's Life and Work
A Sense of Increment
Av John Wilson
Häftad, 1988
357 kr
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A critical retrospective of Creeley's work from 1952 to 1982
On the Poetry of Galway Kinnell
The Wages of Dying
Häftad, 1988
421 kr
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Galway Kinnell is one of the key voices of a rich generation of American poets--those who were born in the 1920s and gained critical recognition in the 1960s. In some ways representative of that group, Kinnell strikes his own extraordinary chord--a union of sensuous detail, rich music, vulnerable …
Jean Valentine
This-World Company
Av Mohammed Kazim Ali, John Hoppenthaler
Inbunden, 2012
1447 kr
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Over the course of more than four decades, contemporary American poet Jean Valentine has written eleven books of stunning, spirit-inflected poetry. This collection of essays, assembled over several years by Kazim Ali and John Hoppenthaler, brings together twenty-six pieces on all stages of …
Anne Carson
Ecstatic Lyre
Inbunden, 2015
1447 kr
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Anne Carson’s works re-think genre in some of the most unusual and nuanced ways that few writers ever attempt, from her lyric essays, enigmatic poems, and novels in verse to further forays into video and comics and collaborative performance. Carson’s pathbreaking translations of Ancient Greek …
Mad Heart Be Brave
Essays on the Poetry of Agha Shahid Ali
Inbunden, 2017
1368 kr
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Born and raised in Kashmir, Agha Shahid Ali (1949–2001) came to the United States in the mid-1970s to pursue graduate study in literature; by the mid-1980s, he had begun to establish himself as one of the most important American poets of the late 20th century. Mad Heart Be Brave: On the Poetry of …
On Gwendolyn Brooks
Reliant Contemplation
Häftad, 2001
341 kr
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This essential book collects reviews and essays on the art and career of Gwendolyn Brooks, the first Black author to win the Pulitzer Prize. While she is best known for her poetry, Brooks's essays, fiction, and children's collections have also drawn critical acclaim and are discussed in this …
Robert Creeley's Life and Work
A Sense of Increment
Av John Wilson
Inbunden, 1988
1131 kr
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A critical retrospective of Creeley's work from 1952 to 1982
Anne Sexton
Telling the Tale
Inbunden, 1988
1368 kr
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Anne Sexton: Telling the Tale contains some of the best and most representative writing on the life and work of this poet. The volume spans the course of her career from the 1960 publication of To Bedlam and Park Way Back to the works that were published after her death in 1974. Of special interest …
James Wright
The Heart of the Light
Av Peter Stitt, Frank Graziano
Inbunden, 1990
1210 kr
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Collects the finest critical writing on one of the masters of American poetry
