Word Play Place: Essays on the Poetry of John Matthias - Couverture rigide

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ISBN 10 : 0804010080 ISBN 13 : 9780804010085

Editeur : Swallow Press, 1998

Synopsis

The poetry of John Matthias has long been admired by other poets for the way it refuses to be categorized. Lyrical and experimental, cosmopolitan and rooted in place, it challenges our received notions of what poetry can be at the end of the twentieth century. This volume introduces the work of this significant American poet to readers previously unfamiliar with it and enriches the reading of those who have long admired it. The essays collected here treat Matthias's career from its beginnings under the tutelage of John Berryman and Yvor Winters through its engagement with modern and postmodern poetics. With contributions from John Peck, Michael Anania, Peter Michelson, and ten other critics, Word Play Place is the first sustained treatment of the poetry of this writer who stands outside the mainstream of American poetry in our time, and is guided by an aesthetic that has not been easy to define. This collection emphasizes how readers ought to approach Matthias's work in all its ambition, its richness, and its strangeness.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Robert Archambeau is a poet and a critic. He teaches English at Lake Forest College in Illinois.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Swallow Press
• Date d'édition: 1998
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0804010080
• ISBN 13: 9780804010085
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 272
• Éditeur: Archambeau Robert
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• Personne responsable: non disponible