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Synthesizing Gravity - Couverture souple

Ryan, Kay

 
9780802148582: Synthesizing Gravity
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 0802148581 ISBN 13 : 9780802148582
Editeur : Black Cat, 2021

Synopsis

The first-ever collection of essays by one of our most distinguished and distinctive poets, Pulitzer Prize-winner and former Poet Laureate of the United States, Kay Ryan

Synthesizing Gravity gathers for the first time a thirty-year selection of Kay Ryan's probings into aesthetics, poetics, and the mind in pursuit of art.

A bracing collection of critical prose, book reviews, and her private previously unpublished soundings of poems and poets-- including Robert Frost, Stevie Smith, Marianne Moore, William Bronk, and Emily Dickinson-- Synthesizing Gravity bristles with Ryan's crisp wit, her keen off-kilter insights, and her appetite and appreciation for the genuine. Among essays like "Radiantly Indefensible," "Notes on the Danger of Notebooks," and "The Abrasion of Loneliness," are piquant pieces on the virtues of emptiness, forgetfulness, and other under-loved concepts. Edited and with an introduction by Christian Wiman, this generous collection of Ryan's distinctive thinking gives us a surprising look into the mind of an American master.

"Synthesizing Gravity is a delight, if a tart and idiosyncratic one . . . If Ryan gives us a view through a keyhole, it's a view often made richer by its constraints." --The New York Times Book Review

"Reading Ryan's writing will charge and recharge the mind . . . a wonderful entry point to her work." --San Francisco Chronicle

"Brilliant . . . For poetry enthusiasts and skeptics alike, this will be an inviting portal into the mind of one of America's greatest living writers." --Publishers Weekly (starred review)

"Damn fine prose . . . What a wonderful voice [Ryan] displays." --John Freeman, "Lit Hub's Most Anticipated Books of 2020"

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À propos de l'auteur

Kay Ryan is a lifetime Californian whose honors include the Pulitzer Prize and the National Humanities Medal awarded by President Obama. She served two terms as U.S. Poet Laureate and is a former MacArthur Fellow.

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Éditeur
Black Cat
Date d'édition
2021
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0802148581
ISBN 13 
9780802148582
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
320
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Personne responsable
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