The winner of the Nobel Trize for Literature, the twentieth century's most famous poet and its most influential literary arbiter, T.S. Eliot has long been thought to be an obscure and difficult poet-forbiddingly learned, maddeningly enigmatic. Now, in this brilliant exploration of T.S. Eliot's work, prize-winning poet Craig Raine reveals that, on the contrary, Eliot's poetry (and drama and criticism) can be seen as a unified and coherent body of work. Indeed, despite its manifest originality, its radical experimentation, and its dazzling formal variety, his verse yields meaning just as surely as other more conventional poetry. Raine argues that an implicit controlling theme-the buried life, or the failure of feeling-unfolds in surprisingly varied ways throughout Eliot's work. But alongside Eliot's desire "to live with all intensity" was also a distrust of "violent emotion for its own sake." Raine illuminates this paradoxical Eliot-an exacting anti-romantic realist, skeptical of the emotions, yet incessantly troubled by the fear of emotional failure-through close readings of such poems as "The Love Song of J Alfred Prufrock, " "Gerontion, " The Hollow Men, Ash Wednesday, and many others. The heart of the book contains extended analyses of Eliot's two master works-The Waste Land and Four Quartets. Raine also examines Eliot's criticism-including his coinage of such key literary terms as the objective correlative, dissociation of sensibility, the auditory imagination-and he concludes with a convincing refutation of charges that Eliot was an anti-Semite. Here then is a volume absolutely indispensable for all admirers of T.S. Eliot and, in fact, for everyone who loves modern literature.
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• Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Foreword;
• 1. Beginnings;
• 2. Into the Morrow;
• 3. Struggles, Triumphs;
• 4. Bright Waters;
• 5. A Complicated Universe;
• 6. Reachings;
• 7. Foreshadowings;
• 8. Changes;
• 9. Recognized in Her Country;
• 10. Brave New World; Afterword; Notes; Selected Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y.

This is the first full-scale biography of Gwendolyn Brooks, one of America's major poets. George E. Kent, a longtime friend and literary associate of the poet in Chicago, was given exclusive access to Brooks' early notebooks, which she kept from the age of seven. Kent also interviewed Brooks, her mother, and other family members in Chicago and elsewhere. He scoured records and correspondence with her publishers, editors, and agent. He participated in the poet's literary enterprises and in her wide circle of literary and family friends. The study reveals intimate acquaintance with the Harlem Re.

• Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Abbreviations; Acknowledgments; Introduction;
• 1. Biographical;
• 2. A Street in Bronzeville;
• 3. Annie Allen;
• 4. Maud Martha, Bronzeville Boys and Girls;
• 5. The Bean Eaters;
• 6. Selected Poems;
• 7. In the Mecca;
• 8. Riot, Family Pictures, Aloneness;
• 9. Later Works; ""In Montgomery""; Report from Part One; The Tiger Who Wore White Gloves; Beckonings; Primer For Blacks; To Disembark; Very Young Poets;
• 10. A Major Poet; Notes; Bibliography of Works by Gwendolyn Brooks; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; V; W; Y; Z.

Gwendolyn Brooks is one of the major American poets of this century and the first black woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for poetry (1950). Yet far less critical attention has focused on her work than on that of her peers. In this comprehensive biocritical study, Melhem -- herself a poet and critic -- traces the development of Brooks's poetry over four decades, from such early works as A Street in Bronzeville, Annie Allen, and The Bean Eaters, to the more recent In the Mecca, Riot, and To Disembark. In addition to analyzing the poetic devices used, Melhem examines the biographical, historical.

Collection of poems from Mary Jo Salter.

• A note on Joanne Kyger by Robert CreeleyIntroduction - Cedar SigoInterview with Paul Watskyfrom The Japan and India Journals, 1960-1964: March 1962Two poems from The Tapestry and the WebInterview with Trevor CarolanMemories of Kerouac - Joanne KygerLetter from Lew Welch (Jan. 9th 1960)Buzz Time - Joanne KygerBuzz photo - Jim HatchTwo poems from The Tapestry and the WebInterview with Linda Russo
• with photos by Joanne Kyger circa 1958Letter from Paris (April 19, 1966) - Joanne Kyger & Larry FaginLetter from Philip Whalen (1967)Still from Descartes (film, 1968)Letter from Charles Olson (1968)from Descartes and The Splendor OfInterview with Bobbie KimballCover from Joanne (1970, photo by Bill Berkson)Letter to Philip Whalen (1969)from Desecheo NotebookInterview with Lawrence NahemRobert Creeley - Joanne KygerBolinas Hearsay News: Interview with Stephanie Anderson, covers by Arthur Okamura, Philip Whalen & Donald GuravichKent State Arts Festival (1974): broadside and interviewfrom Trip Out and Fall BackGregory Corso - Joanne KygerInterview with John Thorpe"Full of Birds in the First" - Joanne KygerBird Notebooks - Joanne KygerRobert Creeley Introduction to Joanne Kyger Reading (1982)Interview with Dale Smith & Michael Pricefrom Lo & BeholdInterview with David MeltzerJoe Brainard - Joanne KygerJournal sequence for Joe Brainard - Joanne KygerFrames - Anne Waldman (1968)Questions for Joanne Kyger - Anne WaldmanNew Millennium Trip to Patzcuaro - Joanne Kyger (2002)Interview with Tyler Doherty and Tom MorganDEER CROWN - Michael McClure (2003)Interview with Chris McCreary"School for Flowers" - Joanne Kyger (July 19th 1995)"When I step through the door.." - Joanne Kyger (1986).
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The inaugural book of Wave's new interview series, There You Are combines forty years of interviews, letters, poems, and journals to present a narrative of the remarkable poet Joanne Kyger, who has intersected with the most influential movements of late twentieth-century poetry, yet has remained rooted in her daily practice with a forthright attention to our present moment.One of the major poets of the San Francisco Renaissance, Joanne Kyger was born in 1934 in Vallejo, CA. After studying at the University of California, Santa Barbara, she moved to San Francisco in 1957, where she became a member of the circle of poets centered around Jack Spicer and Robert Duncan. In 1960, she joined Gary Snyder in Japan and soon traveled to India with Allen Ginsberg and Peter Orlovsky. She returned to California in 1964 and published her first book, The Tapestry and the Web, in 1965. In 1969, she settled in Bolinas, California, where she continues to reside today. She has published over thirty books of poetry and prose, including The Japan and India Journals: 1960-1964, On Time: Poems 2005-2014, As Ever: Selected Poems, and About Now: Collected Poems, which won the 2008 Josephine Miles Award from PEN Oakland.Cedar Sigo was raised on the Suquamish Reservation in the Pacific Northwest and studied at the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics at the Naropa Institute. He is the author of eight books and pamphlets of poetry, including Royals, Language Arts, Stranger in Town, Expensive Magic, and two editions of Selected Writings.
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"" Un jour on me demande d'écrire sur une autre, poète ou romancière, qu'importe, vivante ou morte (plutôt). Et tout de suite ce nom s'impose : Sylvia Plath. Je relis ses textes hypertendus, électrifiés, je regarde ses photos-caméléons. Je fais défiler ses masques, je bats les cartes de son tarot: la supernormal teenager et le Roi des abeilles, l'amante éblouie et la mère-épouse prisonnière de l'Amérique des fifties, les vierges folles, le rameau de peur, le vieux démon mélancolique, l'Oiseau de panique. À travers cette fragile image, cette icône suicidée, je cherche le point d'ajustement de l'écriture à la vie. Je cherche à comprendre ce que, par l'écriture, elle a sauvé de la vie et ce qui, de l'écriture, l'a sauvée elle aussi. Car je crois que Plath a été, dans les deux sens du terme, une survivante : pas seulement une qui est revenue d'entre les morts (Lady Lazare) mais aussi une qui a vécu à l'excès.""--Page 4 of cover.

Lorine Niedecker (1903-70) was a poet of extraordinary talent whose life and work were long enveloped in obscurity. After her death in 1970, poet Basil Bunting wrote that she was 'the most interesting woman poet America has yet produced . . . only beginning to be appreciated when she died.' Her poverty and arduous family life, the isolated home in Wisconsin that provided rich imagery for her work, and her unusual acquaintances have all contributed to Niedecker's enigmatic reputation. Margot Peters brings Lorine Niedecker's life out of the shadows in this first full biography of the poet. She depicts Niedecker's watery world on Blackhawk Island (near Fort Atkinson, Wisconsin), where she was born and spent most of her life. A brief college career cut short by family obligations and an equally brief marriage were followed in 1931 by the start of a life-changing correspondence and complicated thirty-five-year friendship with modernist poet Louis Zukofsky, who connected Niedecker to a literary lifeline of distant poets and magazines. Supporting herself by turns as a hospital scrubwoman and proofreader for a dairy journal, Niedecker made a late marriage to an industrial painter, which gave her time to write and publish her work in the final decades of her life. During her lifetime, Niedecker's poetry was praised by a relatively small literary circle, including Zukofsky, William Carlos Williams, Robert Creeley, Denise Levetov, and Allen Ginsberg. Since her death much more of her surviving writings have been published, including a comprehensive edition of collected works and two volumes of correspondence. Through Margot Peters's compelling biography, readers will discover Lorine Niedecker as a poet of spare and brilliant verse and a woman whose talent and grit carried her through periods of desperation and despair.
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Marian Janssen tells the story of Isabella Gardner, a passionate, troubled woman, whose career as a poet was in constant compromise with her wayward love life and her impulsive and reckless character.
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News of the sudden and untimely death of Larry Levis in 1996 left the world of contemporary American poetry stunned and dismayed. His work was of such depth and such amazing resonance, it was admired and studied by an entire generation of poets and readers, regardless of aesthetic, political, or cultural predispositions. Levis' poems crossed borders, broke down barriers, and invited a sharing of the strange, sweet loneliness of being that is the fundamental human lot."A Condition of the Spirit" brings together reviews, essays, interviews, and meditations by more than forty American poets profoundly affected by Levis' life and work. It also contains twelve previously uncollected essays by Levis himself, making it a virtual handbook for the study of the poet's thinking on the craft of poetry and the craft of life. Contributors to the collection include Deborah Digges, Stephen Dunn, Nancy Eimers, Peter Everwine, Sandra Gilbert, Philip Levine, David St. John, Stephen Sandy, Dave Smith, Gerald Stern, Peter Stitt, Diane Wakoski, David Wojahn, Charles Wright, David Young, and Paul Zimmer.
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