Alvin Feinman

Broschiertes Buch

Corrupted Into Song

The Complete Poems of Alvin Feinman

Herausgeber: Dorfman, Deborah

Beschreibung

"Alvin Feinman's poems are perhaps the purest evidence of the extinction of personality T. S. Eliot believed was one of poetry's necessities. As an aspiration, extinction of personality is as dangerously thrilling as being exposed to a siren's song. As an achievement, Feinman's exquisite, visionary poems, tied to the mast of their own making, allow us to behold fierce, unyielding perceptions."--Michael Collier, director of the University of Maryland Creative Writing Program and the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference "Poetry is making, poesis. And for a time, Alvin Feinman was a maker, a majestic poet who came to embrace his own intolerable limitations, his own dead-end. After long silence, one rejoices in these almost forgotten, rigorous, earthly, purgative poems."--Henri Cole

Autor

Alvin Feinman (1929-2008) taught literature at Bennington College from 1969 to 1994. He was the author of Preambles and Other Poems and an expanded edition of that work, Poems (Princeton). He was born in Brooklyn, New York, and educated at Brooklyn College, the University of Chicago, and Yale University. Feinman's wife, Deborah Dorfman (1934-2015), taught literature at Temple University, Wesleyan University, and SUNY Albany. Harold Bloom (1930-2019) was Sterling Professor of the Humanities and English at Yale University. James Geary is deputy curator of the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard University and the author, most recently, of I Is an Other: The Secret Life of Metaphor and How It Shapes the Way We See the World.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Princeton University Press
• Seitenzahl: 168
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Juli 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 150mm x 10mm
• Gewicht: 272g
• ISBN-13: 9780691170534
• ISBN-10: 0691170533
• Artikelnr.: 44036022