Robert Pack
Autor de New Poets of England and America
Sobre El Autor
Robert Pack is an Abernethy Professor of Literature and Creative Writing Emeritus at Middlebury College, where he taught for thirty-four years and also directed the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference. He has taught at the Honors College of the University of Montana for the past sixteen years.
Obras de Robert Pack
Poems for a Small Planet: Contemporary American Nature Poetry (A Bread Loaf Anthology) (1993) 19 copias
American Identities: Contemporary Multicultural Voices (Bread Loaf Anthology) (1994) — Editor — 5 copias
A stranger's privilege 1 copia
Obras relacionadas
Literary Genius: 25 Classic Writers Who Define English & American Literature (2007) — Contribuidor — 90 copias
Etiquetado
Conocimiento común
- Fecha de nacimiento
- 1929-05-19
- Género
- male
- Nacionalidad
- USA
- Lugar de nacimiento
- New York, New York, USA
- Educación
- Dartmouth College (BA, 1951)
Columbia University (MA, 1953) - Ocupaciones
- poet
professor - Organizaciones
- Bread Loaf Writers' Conference
- Premios y honores
- American Academy of Arts and Letters Academy Award (Literature, 1957)
National Institute of Arts and Letters Award (Literature, 1957)
Borestone Mountain Poetry Award (first prize, 1964)
National Council for the Arts award
Miembros
Reseñas
Introspections: American Poets on One of Their Own… por Robert Pack
Just OK. I had a hankering last month to revisit some of the unfinished poetry books from my undergraduate life--over the years, I'd revisited a couple of the poems/essays here that were used in classes, though going through this now, I realize perhaps my professor had cherry-picked the best ones. There were a few more that struck my fancy, but for the most part, the charm of poets explaining their work grew thin, and I skimmed more than a few. Ah well. Onward and upward!
NOTE: The other two reviews that appear in this section are reviewing a DIFFERENT collection of essays called "Writers On Writing." LibraryThing has incorrectly linked this 1991 collection with the 2002 Collection from the NY Times imprint "Times Books." Please note this! (I'm trying to get LibraryThing to correct this.)
This oldish (1991) collection of essays from writers and poets is very hit-and-miss. For me, a writer less interested in poetry, I found myself getting bogged down in the poetry analysis/methodology pieces. (Though one of the essays directs specifically that writers of prose SHOULD be reading poetry for the purposes of considering word economy, and so I just might have to reconsider.) And even several of the prose-related essays got bogged down in literary ephemera that seemed like it had less to do with writing. But a few of the essays hit home -- especially a fun one on prolificacy, which was good for a chuckle and also made me feel like a slug for not pouring out novels at the rate of Balzac and Dickens. I would only recommend this collection to the hardest-core writer, one who has already slogged through the more common how-to books (Carol Bly, John Gardner, Janet Burroway, Anne Lamott, etc.).… (más)
This oldish (1991) collection of essays from writers and poets is very hit-and-miss. For me, a writer less interested in poetry, I found myself getting bogged down in the poetry analysis/methodology pieces. (Though one of the essays directs specifically that writers of prose SHOULD be reading poetry for the purposes of considering word economy, and so I just might have to reconsider.) And even several of the prose-related essays got bogged down in literary ephemera that seemed like it had less to do with writing. But a few of the essays hit home -- especially a fun one on prolificacy, which was good for a chuckle and also made me feel like a slug for not pouring out novels at the rate of Balzac and Dickens. I would only recommend this collection to the hardest-core writer, one who has already slogged through the more common how-to books (Carol Bly, John Gardner, Janet Burroway, Anne Lamott, etc.).… (más)
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Estadísticas
- Obras
- 39
- También por
- 4
- Miembros
- 482
- Popularidad
- #51,208
- Valoración
- 3.5
- Reseñas
- 3
- ISBNs
- 72