Author: Louis Simpson
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ISBN: 9781934414200
Category : Caribbean poetry (English)
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Louis Simpson has been a leading figure in American letters for more than half a century. Born in the West Indies, Simpson immigrated to the United States at the age of seventeen. He studied at Columbia University, then served the US Army in active duty in Europe during World War II. After the war he continued his studies at Columbia and at the University of Paris. While living in France, he published his first book of poems, 'The Arrivistes' (1949). The poems in 'Struggling Times' find Simpson's distinct imaginative voice working at its full poetic power. Both timely and personal, the poems reveal Simpson's ongoing quarrel with suburban America, as well as the American government's struggle to retain its integrity and honor in the midst of its own aggression and worldwide strife. 'You have to be careful' 'what you hear or see.' 'In Afghanistan I saw' 'the man and the woman' 'who were caught in adultery' 'buried up to their heads.' 'Their children were brought' 'and told to throw stones.' 'I can still see the heads' 'twisting on the ground.' 'The poor devil in' Papillon 'with his head in the guillotine . . .' 'but Goya's half-buried dog' 'looking up at the sky' 'I think was the worst of all.' "This is the Jamaican-born Simpson's 18th collection; its dry trimeters and tragic resignations should certainly please the faithful fans... Yet the new poems, as much as any in his oeuvre, leave room for unexpected happiness... Simpson believes in endurance and the rewards of the ordinary. He can, at his best, make his readers believe in those things too." - Publishers Weekly Louis Simpson 's last book, 'The Owner of the House: New Collected Poems 1940-2001', (BOA Editions, Ltd., 2003) was finalist for the National Book Award and the Griffin Poetry Prize. His other honors include the Prix de Rome, Guggenheim Foundation fellowships, and the Columbia Medal for Excellence.
Author: Louis Simpson
Publisher: BOA Editions, Ltd.
ISBN: 9781929918393
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 412
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Few poets have so artfully confronted American life as Louis Simpson. Persona speakers struggle with everyday issues against a backdrop of larger forces, the individual's maladjustment to a culture of materialism and brutal competition, the failure of marriage under the pressures of such a society, the failure of the American dream. Simpson wages a lover's quarrel with the world. "Louis Simpson has perfect pitch. His poems win us first by their drama, their ways of voicing our ways . . . of making do with our lives. Then his intelligence cajoles us to the brink of a cliff of solitude and we step over into the buoyant element of true poetry."--Seamus Heaney Educated at Munro College (West Indies) and at Columbia University, Louis Simpson has taught widely, most recently at the State University of New York at Stony Brook. He is the author of seventeen books of poetry and ten works of prose. He has received fellowships from the Academy of American Poetry, the Hudson Review, the Guggenheim Foundation, and received the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry.
Author: Louis Simpson
Publisher: New York : Paragon House
ISBN: 9781557781567
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 385
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Poems by the Pulitzer Prize-winning writer deal with World-War II, death, urban life, aging, nature, memories, loneliness, and friendship
Author: Judith Wagner
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780937861585
Category : Businessmen
Languages : en
Pages : 434
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Author: Louis Simpson
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 224
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From the old-world schools of Jamaica, to the battlefields of France, to the schizophrenic world of New York publishing and American Academia, Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Louis Simpson tells his own story as only a master poet can. Simpson is also the recipient of the Columbia Medal for Excellence and Guggenheim fellowships. 12 black-and-white photos.
Author: Louis Simpson
Publisher: New York : Paragon House
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 536
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Author: LOUIS. SIMPSON
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ISBN: 9781033003701
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Author: Louis Simpson
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 528
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In this bilingual anthology, editor and translator Simpson selects those masterpieces of French poetry that formed the taste of generations of readers throughout the world. Here are the moderns of 1848, the Symbolist poets of the turn of the century, the Dadaists, and the Surrealists who flourished in the 1930's. Also included are biographies of the poets and descriptions of main literary movements. --Story Line Press.
Author: Hank Lazer
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 9780472063826
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 412
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These essays on Simpson's poetry provide a commentary on poetics, aesthetics, and literary politics
Author: François Villon
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 224
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Louis Simpson's translation of Francois Villon's The Legacy and The Testament has achieved the impossible, as Simpson has created the definitive translation of the life work of France's greatest poet of the 15th century Abandoned by his parents at an early age and raised by a foster father, later imprisoned, chained and tortured, somehow Villon survived to write one of the most enduring epics ever.
