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Grace Schulman - First Loves and Other Adventures (Poets on Poetry) - 9780472070879 - V9780472070879
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First Loves and Other Adventures (Poets on Poetry)

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Description for First Loves and Other Adventures (Poets on Poetry) Hardcover. Grace Schulman's poetry is often about joy, the celebration of the miraculous, and the birth of beauty from adversity. This book discusses how she became a writer, with influences ranging from her aunt Helen, who leapt from a tower in Poland, to childhood memories of her father reading to her in a foreign language. Series: Poets on Poetry. Num Pages: 216 pages. BIC Classification: DSC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 272.

Grace Schulman's acclaimed poetry is often about joy, the celebration of the miraculous, and the birth of beauty from adversity. In her new prose collection, she explores the passion for reading and other disciplines that led her to exult in her craft.

In First Loves and Other Adventures Schulman explores how she became a writer; her wide-ranging influences; and some of the many writers and works that have enchanted her over the years, ranging from Genesis and Song of Songs in the King James Bible to T. S. Eliot to Walt Whitman. These reflections on her art and career touch on ... Read more

Grace Schulman is the author of six books of poems. Among her honors are the Aiken Taylor Award for poetry, the Delmore Schwartz Memorial Award, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and New York University's Distinguished Alumni Award. Her poems have won three Pushcart Prizes, and her collection Days of Wonder was selected by Library Journal as one of the best poetry books of 2002. Schulman is the former director of the Poetry Center and former poetry editor of the Nation and currently is Distinguished Professor of English at Baruch College, City University of New York.

A volume in the POETS ON POETRY series, which collects critical works by contemporary poets, gathering together the articles, interviews, and book reviews by which they have articulated the poetics of a new generation.

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
University of Michigan Press
Condition
New
Series
Poets on Poetry
Number of Pages
168
Place of Publication
Ann Arbor, United States
ISBN
9780472070879
SKU
V9780472070879
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About Grace Schulman
Read: Review | On the Seawall | 6/21/2010 Read: Review | Assissi Journal | Spring 2010 Read: Review | East Hampton Star | 10/18/2010

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