| Breakfast Served Any Time All Day: Essays on Poetry New and Selected Contributor(s): Hall, Donald (Author) |
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ISBN: 0472068520 ISBN-13: 9780472068524 Publisher: University of Michigan Press OUR PRICE: $19.75 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: September 2004 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | Poetry - Literary Criticism | American - General |
| Dewey: 811.009 |
| LCCN: 2003008358 |
| Physical Information: 0.6" H x 5.56" W x 8.54" (0.72 lbs) 232 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Breakfast Served Any Time All Day collects forty years of writings on poetry in one essential volume by master of American letters Donald Hall. Praise for Breakfast Served: . . . the essays in this book are engaging, passionate, strange, and unified. Hall has been around a long time, and you can trace the concerns of a generation through the mind of this one man: questions about the diminished scope of poetry, the diminished ambitions of poets, how a poem 'means, ' etc. . . . . Criticism . . . is an exercise in sanity, of which these essays are a splendid and useful example. -Poetry A luminous and essential volume about the sensuality of language, its pleasures and sounds. -Ploughshares It is in this merger of a poet's biography and a poem's body that Hall does his best work. . . . Breakfast Served Any Time All Day] has an undeniably infectious quality to it. Finishing it, you cannot help but want to return to your bookshelf, and read-again or for the first time-the great forgotten poems of our past. -Nathan Greenwood Thompson, Rain Taxi |