A Commonplace Book of Pentastichs - Couverture rigide

Carruth, Hayden; Laughlin, James

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0811213862 ISBN 13 : 9780811213868

Editeur : New Directions Publishing Corporation, 1998

Synopsis

James Laughlin (1914-97) was a poet of distinction as well as the founding publisher of New Directions. A Commonplace Book of Pentastichs, the last book of his own that he helped to prepare, is a compilation of 249 poems composed in a five-line stanza form first introduced in The Secret Room (1997). A note to "Thirty-nine Pentastichs" in that earlier volume explains: "a 'pentastich' refers simply to a poem of five lines, without regard to metrics. The word is Greek derived, from pentastichos, though few survive from ancient times... The present selection is of recent short-line compositions in natural voice cadence, many of them marginal jottings and paraphrases of commonplace book notations." Musing on the full collection, Hayden Carruth writes in his introduction: "For the reader it is a survey of literature that will never be found in the classroom--praise whatever gods may be--but indubitably will be found in loving and longlasting proximity on many a bedside table." Here, then, are armchair marginalia and aperçus to be savored at random.

A propos du livre

À propos des auteurs

Hayden Carruth (1921-2008) was a 20th century American poet, literary critic and editor.

James Laughlin (1914-1997) founded New Directions in 1936 while still a student at Harvard. He wrote and compiled more than a dozen books of poetry as well as stories and essays; seven volumes of his correspondence with his authors are available from W.W. Norton.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: New Directions Publishing Corporation
• Date d'édition: 1998
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0811213862
• ISBN 13: 9780811213868
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 95
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible