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Creative Glut: Selected Essays
Karl Shapiro
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Description for Creative Glut: Selected Essays
Hardcover. In this sparkling collection edited by Robert Phillips, Shapiro's most trenchant writings on poetry, poets, and cultural matters are once again available. Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: DN; DSBH; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 144 x 33. Weight in Grams: 567.
Trenchant prose writings on poetry, poets, and cultural matters by one of the most important essayists of his generation. Edited with an Introduction by Robert Phillips. A lively and slashing critic...reading him one feels windows opening, clouds passing, sunlight, and a fresh breeze entering the room. -Joseph Epstein
Trenchant prose writings on poetry, poets, and cultural matters by one of the most important essayists of his generation. Edited with an Introduction by Robert Phillips. A lively and slashing critic...reading him one feels windows opening, clouds passing, sunlight, and a fresh breeze entering the room. -Joseph Epstein
Product Details
Publisher
Ivan R. Dee
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2004
Condition
New
Weight
566g
Number of Pages
368
Place of Publication
Chicago, United States
ISBN
9781566635561
SKU
V9781566635561
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Ref
99-15
About Karl Shapiro
Karl Shapiro (1913-2000) was born in Baltimore, studied at Virginia and Johns Hopkins, and served in the southwest Pacific in World War II. He returned home with the 1945 Pulitzer Prize for his second book of poems, V-Letter and Other Poems, and went on to a long and distinguished career as an American poet, writing books of poetry, autobiography, and ... Read more
Reviews for Creative Glut: Selected Essays
A lively and slashing critic...reading him one feels windows opening, clouds passing, sunlight, and a fresh breeze entering the room.
Joseph Epstein His essays-the most characteristic ones can be found in [this] useful new volume...
New Republic
Karl Shapiro's provocative views of American poetry and culture were well ahead of their time, and decades on his barbs ... Read more
Joseph Epstein His essays-the most characteristic ones can be found in [this] useful new volume...
New Republic
Karl Shapiro's provocative views of American poetry and culture were well ahead of their time, and decades on his barbs ... Read more