A collection of sharp, entertaining, and informative essays by poet Robert Pinsky, Poetry and the World is a passionate inquiry into poetry's place in the modem world. Combining the arts of criticism and autobiography, Pinsky writes about poets as diverse as Walt VVhitman and Philip Freneau, Marianne Moore and Frank O'Hara, about a visit to Poland during the early days of Solidarity, and his own childhood in a seedy New Jersey resort town. The scope and diversity of these essays confirm Pinsky's stature as not only one of our best poets, but as a perceptive and engaging critic as well.
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How poets connect with the outer world is the broad theme that links these searching essays and reviews by Pinsky, a poet ( History of My Heart ) and critic. He admires William Carlos Williams, who had one foot in the daily life of working-class America, the foot in the avant-garde, and whose syncopated poems voice an implied critique of American culture. Pinsky puts his finger on the "sociable presence" in Marianne Moore's poems, which make them "a profound moral force." He unmasks Philip Larkin, who too often affects the persona of a cheerfully philistine reactionary. Other poets whose stance vis-a-vis the world infused their art include American Revolutionary balladeer Philip Freneau, cosmopolite George Oppen, Whitman, Eliot and Edward Arlington Robinsonwho typifies the tragic fate of the sensitive individual in a provincial community. In sinuous, modulated prose, Pinsky gets deep inside his subjects' creative processes.
Copyright 1988 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
Copyright 1988 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
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Respected poet and critic Pinsky presents us with "a series of raids and occasions" on poetry's relationship to the world. Particularly insightful are his theoretical essays "Responsibilities of the Poet," originally a craft lecture, which suggests that a poem embodies "a resistance or transformation of communal values, and "Poetry and Pleasure," which reminds us that the goal of poetry is to give pleasurea point often forgotten in the critical rush to find deeper meanings. Sensitive to the nuances of language, Pinsky convincingly demonstrates, in essays on specific poems, not only how poetry works but why it moves us. Recommended for academic and large public libraries. Donald P. Kaczvinsky, Pennsylvania State Univ., University Park
Copyright 1988 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
Copyright 1988 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
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