The Night Sky: Writings on the Poetics of Experience - Couverture rigide

Lauterbach, Ann

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 067003410X ISBN 13 : 9780670034109

Editeur : Viking Pr, 2005

Synopsis

A collection of essays by the poet author of If in Time and HUM explores the writer's advocacy of an active engagement with language and a centrality of art in a democratic society, in a volume that also includes provocative writings on the lives and works of such figures as Walt Whitman, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and Fanny Howe.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

A scintillating collection of essays on language from one of literature's most supple minds

In The Night Sky, her first work of essays, acclaimed poet Ann Lauterbach writes of the ways in which art and poetry are integral and necessary to human conversation. At the center of the book is a series of seven essays, by turns meditative and polemical, that articulate the interstices between Lauterbach's poetics and her experience. She advocates an active encounter with language, at once imaginative and practical, and argues for the importance of art to the well- being of a democratic society. Lauterbach's "nimble and glittering" ( Booklist) writings bring us to a new understanding of the relationship between self-knowledge and cultural meaning, as well as demonstrating the ways in which contemporary philosophy and theory might be integrated with practical knowledge.

Biographie de l'auteur :

Ann Lauterbach is Ruth and David Schwab III Professor of Language and Literature at Bard College. Her work has received fellowship support from the Guggenheim Foundation, the Ingram Merrill Foundation, and the John D. and Catherine C. MacArthur Foundation. She has published six collections of poetry, including If in Time: Selected Poems 1975-2000.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Viking Pr
• Date d'édition: 2005
• ISBN 10: 067003410X
• ISBN 13: 9780670034109
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 261