The Virtues of Poetry Contributor(s): Longenbach, James (Author) |
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ISBN: 1555976379 ISBN-13: 9781555976378 Publisher: Graywolf Press OUR PRICE: $13.50 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: March 2013 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | Poetry |
Dewey: 808.1 |
LCCN: 2012953981 |
Physical Information: 0.6" H x 5.4" W x 8.2" (0.50 lbs) 169 pages |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: An illuminating look at the many forms of poetry's essential excellence by James Longenbach, a writer with "an ear as subtle and assured as any American poet now writing" (John Koethe) The Virtues of Poetry is a resplendent and ultimately moving work of twelve interconnected essays, each of which describes the way in which a particular excellence is enacted in poetry. Longenbach closely reads poems by Shakespeare, Donne, Blake, Keats, Dickinson, Yeats, Pound, Bishop, and Ashbery (among others), sometimes exploring the ways in which these writers transmuted the material of their lives into art, and always emphasizing that the notions of excellence we derive from art are fluid, never fixed. Provocative, funny, and astute, The Virtues of Poetry is indispensable for readers, teachers, and writers. Longenbach reminds us that poetry delivers meaning in exacting ways, and that it is through its precision that we experience this art's lasting virtues. |