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Said-Songs - Essays on Poetry and Place (Paperback)
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Said-Songs - Essays on Poetry and Place (Paperback)
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The essays collected in Said-Songs range from the personal to the
scholarly and explore the hybrid territory in between, where a
creative writer considers literary craft and how it influences the
generative imagination. Jesse Graves examines the writings of the
people and about the places that have most shaped his own poetry,
including several studies on his ""hometown literary hero,"" the
Knoxville-born winner of the Pulitzer Prize, James Agee. In the
volume's opening essay, Lyric: A Personal History, readers
encounter an emerging poet deeply immersed in the history of lyric
and narrative poems and gain a view into how these literary
traditions shape the writing and revising of his first poetry
collection, the award-winning Tennessee Landscape with Blighted
Pine. Appalachia and its writers hold the central focus of this
collection, but Graves cultivates a space in which poets with
voices and styles as diverse as John Ashbery, Federico Garcia
Lorca, and Adam Zagajewski receive fresh critical attention. These
represent the writers, or the connections between writers, that
Graves could not stop thinking about and felt compelled to try to
understand through the steady concentration of analysis. Every
writer's journey is also the journey of a reader and Graves invites
us to join his ongoing exploration of books, music, and the
literary imagination. The essays and interviews gathered in
Said-Songs trace the evolution of a poet's sensibility from the
early days of a rural eastern Tennessee childhood to the maturing
voice of the writer.
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