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Returning Your Call: Poems
Leonard Nathan
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Description for Returning Your Call: Poems
Hardback. Series: Princeton Series of Contemporary Poets. Num Pages: 88 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 6. Weight in Grams: 28.
"Every poet has one or two compulsive themes," writes Leonard Nathan. "One of mine is how to make things fit together that don't but should; the other is getting down far enough below a surface to see if something is still worth praising. Over the years and without self-consciously trying. I have moved closer and closer to the human voice in my verse. But I have also tried to keep a quality in it--for lack of a better word, I call it eloquence--that makes it more than conversation. My hope is to be clear, true, and good listening." Originally ... Read more
"Every poet has one or two compulsive themes," writes Leonard Nathan. "One of mine is how to make things fit together that don't but should; the other is getting down far enough below a surface to see if something is still worth praising. Over the years and without self-consciously trying. I have moved closer and closer to the human voice in my verse. But I have also tried to keep a quality in it--for lack of a better word, I call it eloquence--that makes it more than conversation. My hope is to be clear, true, and good listening." Originally ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2020
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
88
Condition
New
Series
Princeton Series of Contemporary Poets
Number of Pages
88
Place of Publication
New Jersey, United States
ISBN
9780691644745
SKU
V9780691644745
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