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Guilty Knowledge, Guilty Pleasure: The Dirty Art of Poetry
William Logan
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Description for Guilty Knowledge, Guilty Pleasure: The Dirty Art of Poetry
Hardback. Num Pages: 344 pages, 9 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 236 x 154 x 26. Weight in Grams: 606.
William Logan has been a thorn in the side of American poetry for more than three decades. Though he has been called the "most hated man in American poetry," his witty and articulate reviews have reminded us how muscular good reviewing can be. These new essays and reviews take poetry at its word, often finding in its hardest cases the greatest reasons for hope. Logan begins with a devastating polemic against the wish to have critics announce their aesthetics every time they begin a review. "The Unbearable Rightness of Criticism" is a plea to read those critics who got it ... Read more
William Logan has been a thorn in the side of American poetry for more than three decades. Though he has been called the "most hated man in American poetry," his witty and articulate reviews have reminded us how muscular good reviewing can be. These new essays and reviews take poetry at its word, often finding in its hardest cases the greatest reasons for hope. Logan begins with a devastating polemic against the wish to have critics announce their aesthetics every time they begin a review. "The Unbearable Rightness of Criticism" is a plea to read those critics who got it ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
Weight
606g
Number of Pages
344
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780231166867
SKU
V9780231166867
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About William Logan
William Logan is the author of ten volumes of poetry and five books of essays and reviews, including The Undiscovered Country, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award in Criticism. Among his other honors are the Citation for Excellence in Reviewing from the National Book Critics Circle, the Corrington Medal for Literary Excellence, the Aiken Taylor Award in Modern ... Read more
Reviews for Guilty Knowledge, Guilty Pleasure: The Dirty Art of Poetry
Want to know the state of contemporary poetry? Open this wonderful collection of criticism at any point and just start reading... Logan's criticism is filled with both insight and delight, revealing him as our 21st-century Samuel Johnson. Library Journal (starred review) [Logan's] sentences crackle with insight, intelligence, wit, and the despair of a prophet who sees the estate of poetry ... Read more