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A collection of essays by contemporary American poets on the subject of their artTags
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A substantial, but wildly uneven collection of writings on poetry by many of the most prominent poets active in the 1960s and 70s. I especially liked the thougthful pieces by Bly, Gilbert, Haines, Justice, Kennedy, Levertov, Rich, Stafford, and Walker. If I dwell here on what I didn't like it is because the weaker offerings annoyed me so much. Some of the specifically 60s-70s concerns now read embarrassingly, especially when the writer claims eternal validity for what can now be seen as fads. Many of the concerns are treated with almost post-adolescent enthusiasm, but alas, also with post-adolescent naivete. Others hold wildly inflated notions of the importance of poetry and especially "the Poet". An often repeated theme is an oddly show more defensive defense of the formal validity of free verse, which is treated with surprising lack of sophistication.. show less
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Donald Andrew Hall Jr. was born in New Haven, Connecticut on September 20, 1928. He received a bachelor's degree from Harvard University in 1951. His first collection of poetry, Exiles and Marriages, was published in 1955. His other collections included Without, The Museum of Clear Ideas, and The Painted Bed. He received several awards including show more the National Book Critics Circle Award for The One Day, the Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize for The Happy Man, the Poetry Society of America's Robert Frost Silver medal, and the Ruth Lilly Prize for poetry. He served as poetry editor of The Paris Review from 1953 to 1962 and was the United States poet laureate for 2006-2007. He was also a memoirist, an essayist, and the author of textbooks and children's books. His memoirs were entitled Life Work and Unpacking the Boxes. His children's book, Ox-Cart Man illustrated by Barbara Cooney, won the Caldecott Medal. He received a National Medal of Arts in 2011. He died on June 23, 2018 at the age of 89. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- Fiction and Literature, Literature Studies and Criticism, Poetry
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- 801.951 — Literature & rhetoric Literature, rhetoric & criticism Philosophy and theory Nature and character Literary theory and criticism Theory Of Poetry
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- PN1064 .C59 — Language and Literature Literature (General) Literature (General) Poetry
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