The Sighted Singer: Two Works on Poetry for Readers and Writers

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Johns Hopkins University Press, 1992 - 387 pagine

During a week in January 1981, poets Allen Grossman and Mark Halliday met for a series of conversations exploring "the meanings for us as poets arising from the differences between us—differences of generation and education as well as of temperament and poetic styles." The result was Against Our Vanishing, which Charles Altieri called "the best in contemporary poetic thinking."

The Sighted Singer: Two Works on Poetry for Readers and Writers makes available a revised and significantlyexpanded version of Against Our Vanishing and includes Grossman's recent treatise "Summa Lyrica: A Primer of the Commonplaces in Speculative Poetry." This combined edition provides a sophisticated yet accessible discussion—across generations—of "the fundamental discourse of poetic structure." For students and teachers, for writers and readers, The Sighted Singer is a splendid introduction to both the tradition of poetry and its contemporary practice.

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Allen Grossman was born in 1932 in Minneapolis, Minnesota. He received a B.A. and a M.A. from Harvard University and a Ph.D. from Brandeis University. He taught at Brandeis University for 35 years before moving to Johns Hopkins University, where he taught from 1991 until his retirement in 2006. His collections of poetry include The Ether Dome and Descartes' Loneliness. He received numerous awards during his lifetime including three Pushcart Prizes, the Witter Bynner Prize for Poetry, the Sara Teasdale Memorial Prize in Poetry of Wellesley College, the Sheaffer-PEN/Nex England Award for Literary Distinction, and Yale University's Bollingen Prize. He died of complications from Alzheimer's on June 27, 2014 at the age of 82. Mark Halliday is the author of Stevens and the Interpersonal and Tasker Street, which received the Juniper Prize for 1991. He teaches English at Wilmington Friends School in Delaware.

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TitoloThe Sighted Singer: Two Works on Poetry for Readers and Writers
AutoriAllen Grossman, Mark Halliday
CollaboratoreMark Halliday
Edizioneriveduta
EditoreJohns Hopkins University Press, 1992
ISBN0801842433, 9780801842436
Lunghezza387 pagine
  
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