The Sighted Singer makes available a revised and significantlyexpanded version of Against Our Vanishing and includes Grossman's recent treatise " Summa Lyrica: A Primer of the Commonplaces in Speculative Poetry." This combined edition provides a sophisticated yet accessible discussion—across generations—of "the fundamental discourse of poetic structure."
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In the ideal writing program where criticism and creative writing imply, sustain, and nourish one another, Allen Grossman's ' Summa Lyrica' would be required reading.
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A Tractatus for poetics,
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This review is from: The Sighted Singer: Two Works on Poetry for Readers and Writers (Paperback)
This is an unusual but wonderful book for writers. Imagine a slightly more mystical Wittgenstein retreated to Galway Ireland and returned with a manuscript on the subjet of poetry: The Sighted Singer could be that manuscript.One some level this analogy is entirely superficial: the numbered section and paragraph organization is a direct descendent of Wittgenstein's Tractatus. But the Sighted Singer shares much more with the Tractatus than that: poetic thinking so rigorous it becomes almost mystical, a ladder one must pull up after one has climbed up it.Whether the author's poetics are "right" or "true" is almost inconsequential. His propositions are so challenging and so thought-provoking that the mere experience of reading this book is valuable.If you are a writer or serious reader of poetry, this book will make you more serious about the task at hand in either endeavor.
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Pompous and nonsensical.,
This review is from: The Sighted Singer: Two Works on Poetry for Readers and Writers (Hardcover)
This book is presented as a conversation between two poets, but really it's an excuse for Allen Grossman to talk. His tone is condescending and patronizing toward both Halliday and the reader, which instantly makes you dislike the book. Beyond that, the insights that are in the book are vague, not well argued/supported and very abstract. This book does not open you to thinking about poetry, but rather attempts to lecture you on a single viewpoint that's incomprehensible. Save your money and read poets that actually matter.
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There is very little worthwhile that is written about poetry. Exceptions to this include everything Allen Grossman has ever said or done. He offers us hope for the future life of poetry. If you are a serious poet (I doubt that you are-there are only a handful on our planet right now, as far as I can tell), if you are AT ALL serious you should read this book.
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Poetry is a principle of power invoked by all of us against our vanishing. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
eidetic function, hermeneutic friendship, substantiating image, lyric person, characterizing marks, aesthetic humanism, ontological affirmation, transcendental reference, poetic knowledge, poetic speaker, lyric speaker, poetic enterprise, radical humanism, absolute word Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Mark Halliday, Summa Lyrica, High Modems, Little Sleep, Mary Snorak, Adrienne Rich, Harlot's Hire, Little Star, Oxford University Press, Princeton University Press, Allen Grossman, Chicago River, General Linguistics, Life Studies, Pat's Poem, Emily Dickinson, Poetic Closure, Second World War, The Runner, Free Press, George Herbert, Hart Crane, Anatomy of Criticism, Ars Poetica New!
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Poetry is a principle of power invoked by all of us against our vanishing. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
eidetic function, hermeneutic friendship, substantiating image, lyric person, characterizing marks, aesthetic humanism, ontological affirmation, transcendental reference, poetic knowledge, poetic speaker, lyric speaker, poetic enterprise, radical humanism, absolute word Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Mark Halliday, Summa Lyrica, High Modems, Little Sleep, Mary Snorak, Adrienne Rich, Harlot's Hire, Little Star, Oxford University Press, Princeton University Press, Allen Grossman, Chicago River, General Linguistics, Life Studies, Pat's Poem, Emily Dickinson, Poetic Closure, Second World War, The Runner, Free Press, George Herbert, Hart Crane, Anatomy of Criticism, Ars Poetica New!
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- Life studies by Robert Lowell on 5 pages
- Poetic Closure: A Study of How Poems End by Barbara Herrnstein Smith on 5 pages
- Problems in General Linguistics (Miami Linguistic) by Emile Benveniste on 4 pages
- The Waste Land (Norton Critical Editions) by T. S. Eliot on 4 pages
- The Waste Land and Other Writings (Modern Library Classics) by T.S. Eliot on 4 pages
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- The Poetry of Louise Gluck: A Thematic Introduction by Daniel Morris on page 117, and Back Matter
- Dickinson's Misery: A Theory of Lyric Reading by Virginia Jackson in Back Matter
- Randall Jarrell and His Age by Stephen Burt in Back Matter
- Poet's Choice by Edward Hirsch on page 228
- Poetic Gesture: Myth, Wallace Stevens, and the Desirous Motions of Poetic Language (Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory) by Kristine S. Santilli in Back Matter
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