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Strange Good Fortune: Essays on Contemporary Poetry
David Wojahn
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Paperback. Num Pages: 279 pages. BIC Classification: JF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 154 x 20. Weight in Grams: 445.
Strange Good Fortune is a collection of fifteen essays on the state of American verse, written by a well-known American poet whose criticism has also attracted considerable attention. Passionate in his engagement with both the practice of poetry and in the observation of verse as it exists within an increasingly professionalized and sometimes perplexing scene, Wojahn follows in the tradition of poet-critics such as Randall Jarrell and Delmore Schwartz, offering provocative and insightful observations about such topics as the persistence of autobiographical poetry, poetry and politics, the creative writing industry, American poets and travel, recent literary hoaxes, and the poetry ... Read more
Strange Good Fortune is a collection of fifteen essays on the state of American verse, written by a well-known American poet whose criticism has also attracted considerable attention. Passionate in his engagement with both the practice of poetry and in the observation of verse as it exists within an increasingly professionalized and sometimes perplexing scene, Wojahn follows in the tradition of poet-critics such as Randall Jarrell and Delmore Schwartz, offering provocative and insightful observations about such topics as the persistence of autobiographical poetry, poetry and politics, the creative writing industry, American poets and travel, recent literary hoaxes, and the poetry ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
University of Arkansas Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
279
Place of Publication
Fayetteville, United States
ISBN
9781557287083
SKU
V9781557287083
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About David Wojahn
David Wojahn is the Lilly Professor of Poetry and director of creative writing at Indiana University. His previous publications include: Icehouse Lights; Mystery Train; Late Empire; The Falling Hour. He was an editor of A Profile of American Poetry and The Only World: Last Poems of Lynda Hull.
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