The Bright Nails Scattered on the Ground

The Bright Nails Scattered on the Ground PDF Author: Allen R. Grossman
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 9780811209762
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 112

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A series of poems traces the course of a love affair from both the man's and the woman's point of view.

The Bright Nails Scattered on the Ground

The Bright Nails Scattered on the Ground PDF Author: Allen R. Grossman
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 9780811209762
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 112

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A series of poems traces the course of a love affair from both the man's and the woman's point of view.

The Ether Dome and Other Poems

The Ether Dome and Other Poems PDF Author: Allen R. Grossman
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 9780811211840
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 206

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Encyclopedia of American Poetry: The Twentieth Century

Encyclopedia of American Poetry: The Twentieth Century PDF Author: Eric L. Haralson
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 131776322X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 867

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The Encyclopedia of American Poetry: The Twentieth Century contains over 400 entries that treat a broad range of individual poets and poems, along with many articles devoted to topics, schools, or periods of American verse in the century. Entries fall into three main categories: poet entries, which provide biographical and cultural contexts for the author's career; entries on individual works, which offer closer explication of the most resonant poems in the 20th-century canon; and topical entries, which offer analyses of a given period of literary production, school, thematically constructed category, or other verse tradition that historically has been in dialogue with the poetry of the United States.

The Posen Library of Jewish Culture and Civilization

The Posen Library of Jewish Culture and Civilization PDF Author: Deborah Dash Moore
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 030013553X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 576

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Presents an encyclopedia of Jewish culture from 1973 to 2005, including secular and religious examples from the visual arts, literature, and popular culture.

Sweet Youth

Sweet Youth PDF Author: Allen R. Grossman
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 9780811215220
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 148

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A comprehensive lifetime selection of poetryfrom the Sweet Youth to the Old Man. Of the early work of Allen Grossman, the late Robert Fitzgerald once wrote: "At times they seem poems of great age, poems at the world's verge, at the verge of time." Of the later work, Jorie Graham observed: "In [his] marriage of meanspart almanac, part allegory, part advice column, obituary page, hymnal, epic dramafrom the bottom reaches of the underworld, to the elevations from which one need cry out to be heardGrossman invents such peace as Poetry can invent." In Sweet Youth, the younger poet and the older one meet at an eternal moment and a dialogue in poetry ensues, as the Allen Grossman of 2001 and the Allen Grossman of nearly fifty years earlier respond to one another's words.The poems of the "Sweet Youth", some of them dating to the early '50s, were originally collected in the poet's first three books: A Harlot's Hire (1961), The Recluse (1965), And the Dew Lay All Night Upon My Branch (1973). Since then, there have been six more books of poetry and four of prose, though in "Sweet Youth," all the poems of "Old Man" are new, written in his seventieth year. Grossman is now the Andrew Mellon Professor of the Humanities at The Johns Hopkins University.

Descartes' Loneliness

Descartes' Loneliness PDF Author: Allen R. Grossman
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 9780811217118
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 80

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A new, breakthrough collection by one of our most disturbing and humanly gifted poets (Harold Bloom).

Bearing Meaning

Bearing Meaning PDF Author: Robbie Kahn
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 9780252067150
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 474

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How to Do Things with Tears

How to Do Things with Tears PDF Author: Allen R. Grossman
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 9780811214643
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 118

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Collection of poetry.

The Philosopher's Window

The Philosopher's Window PDF Author: Allen R. Grossman
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 9780811213004
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 116

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The speaker of The Philosopher's Window and Other Poems, Allen Grossman tells us, is "an old man compelled by the insistent questioning of the children to explain himself"--and in this way, the world. He begins with creation ("The Great Work Farm Elegy"), recalls the romantic quest of youth ("The Philosopher's Window"), returns to reality ("The Snowfall" and "Whoever Builds"). His tales told, the old man wakes in a stormy springtime ("June, June"), "when the lilacs are gone." Grossman's allegory of life's journey, at once sonorous and antic, takes in the high and the low in these new visionary songs of innocence and experience. Allen Grossman is Andrew W. Mellon Professor of the Humanities at The Johns Hopkins University. He counts among his many honors and awards MacArthur, Guggenheim, and NEA fellowships, the Witter Bynner Prize for Poetry, and the PEN-Sheaffer/New England Award for Literary Distinction. The Philosopher's Window is his eighth book of poetry. His previous collection, The Ether Dome & Other Poems New and Selected (1991), was a National Book Critics Circle Award nominee.

Everyday and Prophetic

Everyday and Prophetic PDF Author: Nick Halpern
Publisher: Univ of Wisconsin Press
ISBN: 9780299173401
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 314

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Everyday and Prophetic is the first book to describe and analyze at length the prophetic voice and the everyday voice in postwar and contemporary American poetry. Nick Halpern's commentaries on the work of Robert Lowell, A.R. Ammons, James Merrill, Adrienne Rich, Jorie Graham, and Louise Glück, serve the reader with a fresh and original context in which to see their work, and Postwar American poetry as a whole.