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A Vertical Art - On Poetry (Paperback)
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A Vertical Art - On Poetry (Paperback)
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List price R596
Loot Price R550
Discovery Miles 5 500
You Save R46 (8%)
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From the UK Poet Laureate and bestselling translator, a spirited
book that demystifies and celebrates the art of poetry today In A
Vertical Art, acclaimed poet Simon Armitage takes a refreshingly
common-sense approach to an art form that can easily lend itself to
grand statements and hollow gestures. Questioning both the facile
and obscure ends of the poetry spectrum, he offers sparkling new
insights about poetry and an array of favorite poets. Based on
Armitage's public lectures as Oxford Professor of Poetry, A
Vertical Art illuminates poets as varied as Emily Dickinson, Walt
Whitman, Marianne Moore, W. H. Auden, Ted Hughes, Thom Gunn, A. R.
Ammons, and Claudia Rankine. The chapters are often delightfully
sassy in their treatment, as in "Like, Elizabeth Bishop," in which
Armitage dissects-and tallies-the poet's predilection for similes.
He discusses Bob Dylan's Nobel Prize, poetic lists, poetry and the
underworld, and the dilemmas of translating Sir Gawain and the
Green Knight. Armitage also pulls back the curtain on the
unromantic realities of making a living as a contemporary poet, and
ends the book with his own list of "Ninety-Five Theses" on the
principles and practice of poetry. An appealingly personal book
that explores the volatile and disputed definitions of poetry from
the viewpoint of a practicing writer and dedicated reader, A
Vertical Art makes an insightful and entertaining case for the
power and potential of poetry today.
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