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During a week in January 1981, poets Allen Grossman and Mark Halliday met for a series of conversations exploring "the meanings for us as poets arising from the difference between us-- differences of generation and education as well as of temperament and poetic style." The result was "Against Our Vanishing", which Charles Altieri called " the best in contemporary poetic thinking."
"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." -- Alan Shapiro
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During a week in January 1981, poets Allen Grossman and Mark Halliday met for a series of conversations exploring "the meanings for us as poets arising from the difference between us-- differences of generation and education as well as of temperament and poetic style." The result was "Against Our Vanishing", which Charles Altieri called " the best in contemporary poetic thinking."
"The Sighted Singer: Two Works on Poetry for Readers and Writers" makes available a revised and significantly expanded version of "Against Our Vanishing" and includes Grossman's recent treatise "Summa Lyrica: A Primer of the Commonplaces in the Speculative Poetics". This combined edition provides a sophisticated yet accessible discussion-- across generations-- of "the fundamental discourse of poetic structure". For students and teachers, for writers and readers, "The Sighted Singer" is a splendid introduction to both the tradition of poetry and its contemporary practice.
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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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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 , No 8) 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 Glück: 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 Professor 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 Kristi Santilli in Back Matter
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