Author: Irving Layton
Publisher: McClelland & Stewart
ISBN:
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 152

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Author: Irving Layton
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 9780811206419
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 76

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Author: Wildside Press
Publisher: Millefleurs
ISBN: 9780809545643
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 140

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Author: Irving Layton
Publisher: McClelland & Stewart
ISBN:
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 92

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Author: Irving Layton
Publisher: Erin, Ont. : Porcupine's Quill
ISBN:
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 204

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Don't let the title fool you; this is not a book of romantic bric-a-brac, a Valentine's Day gift to be lightly given and lightly forgotten. Irving Layton's career was based on an unflinching attention to everything he could discover about the human character, including its less savoury aspects. In the poems of "Dance with Desire" chosen from across the span of his long career, Layton styles himself as a 20th-century Catullus, loving and hating with equal glee, given to passionate excesses and epigrammatic precision, utterly unconcerned with sweet nothings or political correctness. Layton is often charged with being too verbose, with having published far too many substandard poems, and having let his verse grow slack as he grew older. These are all valid criticisms, but they don't really apply to "Dance with Desire" since its very existence depends upon the excesses, embarrassments, and foolishness of the unstifled love that Layton celebrates.'

Author: Irving Layton
Publisher: McClelland & Stewart
ISBN:
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 76

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Author: Irving Layton
Publisher: Highlands [N.C.] : J. Williams
ISBN:
Category : Canadian poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 804

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Author: Anna Pottier
Publisher: Dundurn
ISBN: 1459728556
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 353

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After dropping out of school, 23-year-old Anna Pottier became Layton's fifth and final wife. She was 48 years his junior. As Irving's partner, she shared his world until Parkinson's and early-stage Alzheimer's changed both of their lives, and Pottier had nothing left to give.

Author: Irving Layton
Publisher: McClelland & Stewart
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 176

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Author: Edward Hirsch
Publisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 0547543727
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 375

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A masterful work by a master poet, this brilliant summation of poetry and human nature will speak to all readers who long to place poetry in their lives. How to Read a Poem is an unprecedented exploration of poetry and feeling. In language at once acute and emotional, National Book Critics Circle award-winning distinguished poet and critic Edward Hirsch describes why poetry matters and how we can open up our imaginations so that its message can make a difference. In a marvelous reading of verse from around the world, including work by Pablo Neruda, Elizabeth Bishop, Wallace Stevens, and Sylvia Plath, among many others, Hirsch discovers the true meaning of their words and ideas and brings their sublime message home into our hearts. "The answer Hirsch gives to the question of how to read as poem is: Ecstatically."—Boston Book Review