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Inventions on the Brink: Essays

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Availability:In StockContributor:J. T. BarbaresePublish date:11/13/2025Pages:270
Language:EnglishPublisher:Louisiana State University PressISBN-13:9780807185087ISBN-10:807185086UPC:9780807185087Book Category:Literary Criticism, Literary CollectionsBook Subcategory:Poetry, Essays, Comparative LiteratureSize:9.00 x 6.00 x 0.61 inchesWeight:0.8003Product ID:SCBZZQFXQF

Inventions on the Brink, a collection of literary journalism by J. T. Barbarese, offers engagingly plainspoken and informed essays on American poetry from Edgar Allan Poe to the present, written by a poet with long experience in the classroom. The collection discusses writers as divergent as Walt Whitman and Ezra Pound, Hart Crane and A. R. Ammons, Gerald Stern and John Prine. It includes a separate section of essays examining the craft of translation with attention to specific works translated from ancient Greek, Italian, and modern French.

A distinguishing feature of the book is that it is informed by literary theory but independent of any particular critical modality. Barbarese writes about literature for a general audience, particularly readers with wide tastes interested in engaging with literary art. His essays are the outcome of deeply reading and internalizing work he has known, studied, and admired over the course of a long career of publishing, teaching, and public lecturing.
Language:EnglishPublisher:Louisiana State University PressISBN-13:9780807185087ISBN-10:807185086UPC:9780807185087Book Category:Literary Criticism, Literary CollectionsBook Subcategory:Poetry, Essays, Comparative LiteratureSize:9.00 x 6.00 x 0.61 inchesWeight:0.8003Product ID:SCBZZQFXQF
J. T. Barbarese, professor emeritus of English at Rutgers University, is the author of six books of poetry, including Sweet Spot and True Does Nothing. His recent translations include After Prévert: Poems from "Paroles," and his work has appeared in publications such as The Atlantic, The New Yorker, Poetry magazine, and Times Literary Supplement.
Publisher: Louisiana State University Press

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