World, Self, Poem collects the best of the essays submitted by poets and scholars from around the US and Canada, and beyond, for presentation at the ""Jubilation of Poets"" festival celebrating the 25th anniversary of the Cleveland State University Poetry Centre in October 1986. In this collection, 18 critics consider the works of a number of important postmodern poets and, using various approaches, confront some of the central problems posed by the poetry of the past 25 years. John Ashbery, Wendell Berry, Edward Dorn, ...
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World, Self, Poem collects the best of the essays submitted by poets and scholars from around the US and Canada, and beyond, for presentation at the ""Jubilation of Poets"" festival celebrating the 25th anniversary of the Cleveland State University Poetry Centre in October 1986. In this collection, 18 critics consider the works of a number of important postmodern poets and, using various approaches, confront some of the central problems posed by the poetry of the past 25 years. John Ashbery, Wendell Berry, Edward Dorn, Robert Duncan, Geoffrey Hill, Ted Hughes, Louise Gluck, Adrienne Rich, Denise Levertov, Gary Snyder, Gerald Stern and William Stafford are among the poets who receive detailed attention in these essays. The questions addressed include political involvement and non-involvement, the theme of nuclear annihilation, the poet's use and misuse of history, poetry workshops in Central America, the ""I"" in contemporary poetry; the pastoral vein in contemporary poetry; the nature and implications of concrete and ""found"" poetry, analogies of poetry and music.
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Fine/Fine Dust Jacket. 0873384199 A FINE HARDCOVER IN FOINE DUST JACKET (which is now protected by a mylar wrapper). Includes 18 essays on poetry by poets and scholars, a selection of the best essays submitted for presentation at the "Jubilation of Poets", a festival celebrating the twenty-fifth anniversary of the Cleveland State University Poetry Center in October 1986. 252 pages, with general index, list of contributors and works cited, and source notes, plus some musical notations and 6 illustrations.
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Fine in very good dust jacket. like new in a very good jacket with Light shelfwear, No ownership marks. Sewn binding. With dust jacket. 260 p. Audience: General/trade.
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Near Fine in Very Good jacket. 8 vo. Dj w/lite wear only; 252 clean, unmarkled pages; includes amont others, essays by/about: Poetry; Literary Criticism; David Lloyd (Geoffrey Hill, Mercian Hymns); Rand Brandes (Ted Hughes), Alan Golding (Edward Dorn); Peter A. Siedlecki (Gerald Stern); Lynn Keller (Louise Gluck); Kuibek Basney (Gary Snyder, Wendell Berry), Thomas B. Byers (Adrienne Rich); Lorrie Smith (Denise Levertov, Adrienne Rich), Fred E. Maus (John Ashbury), Thomas E. Beneiktsson (William Stafford), Etc.
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Some rubbing. VG., dustwrapper. 24x15cm, vi, 252 pp., Some wear to dustwrapper. Papers presented at the festival held Oct. 23-26, 1986 in Cleveland, Ohio, in celebration of the 25th anniversary of the Cleveland State University Poetry Center.
