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by: Peter Stitt
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Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 811.5409
EAN: 9780877455998
ISBN: 0877455996
Label: University Of Iowa Press
Manufacturer: University Of Iowa Press
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 210
Publication Date: September 01, 1997
Publisher: University Of Iowa Press
Sales Rank: 2108971
Studio: University Of Iowa Press
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Amazon.com Review:
Peter Stitt, a distinguished critic as well as the editor of the Gettysburg Review, has put together a fascinating study of five contemporary American poets: John Ashberry, Stephen Dobyns, Charles Simic, Gerald Stern, and Charles Wright. Stitt examines the writers' habitual strategies, subject matters, resonances to larger cultural issues, and aesthetic strengths and weaknesses. It's tough to make generalizations about an extant literary period, but by focusing his observations on these five poets, Stitt makes some modest, reasonable claims about the current state of poetry that are supported by strong readings of the poems themselves.
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Rating: - A wonderfully readable book, beautifully written.
Stitt's analyses of the five poets are superb and full ofinsights, butperhaps most striking is his use of the philosophy of modern physics, fully explained in the introduction and developed throughout. An impressive performance and an excellent book overall. Beautiful design too!
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