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Cargando... Poetry and Ambition: Essays 1982--88 (Poets on Poetry)por Donald Hall
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. This is the second volume of miscellaneous essays by Hall that I have read recently and I liked it better than the earlier book. Certain quirks, repetitions, favorite phrases reappear, but these are generally pleasant and stimulating reading. Hall's audience seems to be other poets, with a nod to the coterie of non-poet poetry readers. In general, these pieces are light weight, but thoughtful, informed, but not intimidating. A few of these essays focus on particular writers (William Carlos Williams, Larkin), but most of them a ruminations on a theme: the sound and mouth feel of poetry (for Hall, poetry is a very physical thing), the place of poetry in modern (1980s) society, the writer's vocation. I recommend the essay on the pleasures of (or in) poetry entitled "The Way to Say Pleasure", as well as the touching memoir of his childhood near the end of the volume. ( ) sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
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In Donald Hall's compelling new collection of essays on the state of contemporary poetry, he likens much of what passes for poetry today to the product of an assembly line -- the McPoem. The McPoem may satisfy the desire for fame, the ambition for publication. But real ambition for the poet, says Hall, lies in the sometimes painful, always time-consuming perfection of the poem itself. You may not agree with Hall, but you cannot afford to ignor him. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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