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from: W. W. Norton & Company
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Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 811.509
EAN: 9780393050929
ISBN: 0393050920
Label: W. W. Norton & Company
Manufacturer: W. W. Norton & Company
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 512
Publication Date: October 14, 2002
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Sales Rank: 706267
Studio: W. W. Norton & Company
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Product Description:
Poignant, hilarious, and brutally frank, Dear Editor reveals the personalities and untold stories behind the creation of modern poetry.
'The history of poetry and Poetry in America are almost interchangeable, certainly inseparable,' A. R. Ammons wrote. Dear Editor, in gathering over 600 surprisingly candid letters to and from the editors of Poetry, traces the development of poetry in America: Ezra Pound's opinion of T. S. Eliot ('It is such a comfort to meet a man and not have to tell him to wash his face, wipe his feet') and of Robert Frost ('dull as ditch water...[but] set to be 'literchure' someday'); Edna St. Vincent Millay's pleas for an advance ('I am become very, very thin, and have taken to smoking Virginia tobacco'); Wallace Stevens on himself ('I have a pretty well-developed mean streak').
Here are the inside stories, the rivalries between aspiring authors, the inspirations behind classics, the practicalities (and politicking) of publishing. In fascinating anecdotes and literary gossip, scores of poets offer insights into the creative process and their reactions to historic events. 40 b/w illustrations.
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