Of the Great House: A Book of Poems - Couverture souple

Grossman, Allen

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0811208354 ISBN 13 : 9780811208352

Editeur : New Directions Publishing Corporation, 1982

Synopsis

"A book of poems should have exactly the same fullness and risk and lay itself open to the same judgment as a life," says Allen Grossman. Of the Great House, which includes sections of A Harlot's Hire (1961), Grossman's first published book, as well as his most recent poetry, presents an anatomy of the poet's working life. The title poem invokes "the sighted singer, in a/Passionate, laboring house," who confronts those figures in his unconscious which influence and interfere with poetic vision, braving the necessary destructions until "there is nothing in place of what/I know, the only thing that is--the world." Part II, "The Pictures in a Man's Life," seeks out relationships among the haunting, inspiring, "demonically incoherent facts of life in the world--the poet's parents, yellowwoods blooming on a lawn, closeness to an earlier self. "The Dream Which Wakes the Sleeper Does Not End" contains poems from an earlier life, and Of the Great House closes with "An Inventory of Destructions," a summing and a summoning: "the poet speaks to the unborn in the/language of the born, and to the born he speaks/The language of the unborn--Break down and build!/Destructions are of the poet. Death is of God."

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Allen Grossman was born in 1932 in Minneapolis, Minnesota. His awards and honors include a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Witter Brynner Prize for Poetry, and a MacArthur Fellowship. He was professor of English at Brandeis University and the Andrew W. Mellon Professor of the Humanities at the Johns Hopkins University.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: New Directions Publishing Corporation
• Date d'édition: 1982
• ISBN 10: 0811208354
• ISBN 13: 9780811208352
• Reliure: Broché
• Langue: anglais
• Nombre de pages: 98
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible