| What the Poem Wants: Prose on Poetry Contributor(s): Browne, Michael Dennis (Author) |
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ISBN: 088748512X ISBN-13: 9780887485121 Publisher: Carnegie-Mellon University Press OUR PRICE: $16.16 Product Type: Paperback Published: March 2009 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Poetry |
| LCCN: 2008941945 |
| Series: Carnegie Mellon Poets in Prose |
| Physical Information: 0.5" H x 5.4" W x 9.1" (0.61 lbs) 168 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This book contains fifteen essays and talks by a poet and librettist who has taught for over forty years (Iowa, Columbia, Bennington, Minnesota). They explore a range of topics, from individual poets such as D.H. Lawrence, John Berryman and James Wright to themes such as Failure, Listening, Poetry and Walking, and Words for Music. They represent an artist's attempt to step outside his main genre and become conscious not only of the things it occurred to him, mostly intuitively, to write about, but also themes, patterns and processes in other writers and writings he admires. The style is colloquial and the author uses numerous quotations, from several disciplines, to illustrate his thought and to help the reader see into the ways a writer works (and plays). |