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Bardic Deadlines - Reviewing Poetry, 1984-95 (Hardcover, New)
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Bardic Deadlines - Reviewing Poetry, 1984-95 (Hardcover, New)
Series: Poets on Poetry
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In "Bardic Deadlines," writer and editor Geoffrey O'Brien collects
twenty of his essays on poetry that originally appeared in the
"Voice Literary Supplement" and the "New York Review of Books,"
O'Brien surveys an array of some of the most striking and
innovative poets to emerge in recent decades, including Susan Howe,
August Kleinzahler, Clark Coolidge, Nathaniel Mackey, Gustaf Sobin,
and Michael O'Brien. Discussions of contemporary work are
juxtaposed with considerations of other traditions going as far
back as the second-century Chinese anthology "The Songs of the
South" and the Sanskrit master Kalidasa, traditions considered
highly relevant to current practice.
There are engaging, in-depth portraits of the work of poets John
Clare, Hugh MacDiarmid, Emily Bronte, Kenji Miyazawa, and Frank
O'Hara, among others. There is also an exploration of the poetics
of Walt Whitman that highlights themes addressed throughout the
collection: the physicality and musicality of language, the spatial
dimension of poetry, the intimate bond between poet and reader, and
the secret and often obsessive strategies by which the poet hides
secrets in plain sight and enlists the reader in the making of the
poem. Each essay focuses on poetry as experience that impinges on
basic questions of identity and being.
Geoffrey O'Brien is the author of a number of nonfiction books and
poetry collections, including "Hardboiled America: Lurid Paperbacks
and the Masters of Noir," "Floating City: Selected Poems
1978-1995," and "The Hudson Mystery," and a fictional work, "The
Times Square Story," He is editor-in-chief of the Library of
America.
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