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Language:EnglishPublisher:University of Chicago PressISBN-13:9780226492506ISBN-10:226492508UPC:9780226492506Book Category:Literary CriticismBook Subcategory:Poetry, AmericanSize:8.54 x 5.68 x 0.44 inchesWeight:0.4806Product ID:SCN7HVEJ2Q
The Resistance to Poetry
Poems inspire our trust, argues James Longenbach in this bracing work, because they don't necessarily ask to be trusted. Theirs is the language of self-questioning-metaphors that turn against themselves, syntax that moves one way because it threatens to move another. Poems resist themselves more strenuously than they are resisted by the cultures receiving them. But the resistance to poetry is...
Language:EnglishPublisher:University of Chicago PressISBN-13:9780226492506ISBN-10:226492508UPC:9780226492506Book Category:Literary CriticismBook Subcategory:Poetry, AmericanSize:8.54 x 5.68 x 0.44 inchesWeight:0.4806Product ID:SCN7HVEJ2Q
James Longenbach is the Joseph Henry Gilmore Professor of English at the University of Rochester and the author of four distinguished critical studies of modern literature, most recently Modern Poetry after Modernism. His two books of poems, Threshold and Fleet River, are published by the University of Chicago Press.
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