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Description for Quiet Lives
Hardback. Series: Vox Humana. Num Pages: 88 pages, 6 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: DC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 7. Weight in Grams: 322.
I have been much absorbed in David Cope's poetry as necessary continuation of tradition of lucid grounded sane objectivism in poetry following the visually solid practice of Charles Reznikoff & William Carlos Williams. Though the notions of 'objectivism' were common for many decades among U. S. poets, there is not a great body of direct-sighted "close to the nose" examples of poems that hit a certain ideal objectivist mark-"No ideas but in things" consisting of "minute particulars" in which "the natural object is always the adequate symbol", works of language wherein "the mind is clamped down on objects", and where ... Read more
I have been much absorbed in David Cope's poetry as necessary continuation of tradition of lucid grounded sane objectivism in poetry following the visually solid practice of Charles Reznikoff & William Carlos Williams. Though the notions of 'objectivism' were common for many decades among U. S. poets, there is not a great body of direct-sighted "close to the nose" examples of poems that hit a certain ideal objectivist mark-"No ideas but in things" consisting of "minute particulars" in which "the natural object is always the adequate symbol", works of language wherein "the mind is clamped down on objects", and where ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1983
Publisher
Humana Press Inc. United States
Number of pages
88
Condition
New
Series
Vox Humana
Number of Pages
88
Place of Publication
Totowa, NJ, United States
ISBN
9780896030480
SKU
V9780896030480
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