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Startled at the Big Sound - Essays Personal, Literary, and Cultural (Hardcover)
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Startled at the Big Sound - Essays Personal, Literary, and Cultural (Hardcover)
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Startled at the Big Sound: Essays Personal, Literary, and Cultural
is the first prose collection by Stephen Corey, a widely published
poet (with ten collections in all) and one of the country's most
highly regarded literary editors, who cofounded The Devil's
Millhopper in 1977 and has worked with The Georgia Review since
1983. These essays, written across three decades, variously
describe, analyze, and meditate upon his concurrent lives as family
member, publishing writer, editor for a major literary journal, and
cultural-political observer of the broader world within which he
has lived while experiencing his smaller realms. In these essays,
Corey finds himself unwilling and/or unable to write about a family
member without alluding to poetry or other arts, about his editing
work without reference to his own writing practice and philosophy,
or about his own writing without connecting it to history and
society. Whether writing on being a conscientious objector during
the Vietnam war, on the death of Roy Orbison, or about an adoption
document that comes to America in advance of his new South Korean
infant daughter, Stephen Corey finds himself moved to new
definitions of his other life's blood, poetry. As the title of one
of Stephen Corey's poetry collections states, "There is no finished
world," and many of the essays collected here speak to one or both
senses of that crucial word "finished": for the artist, there is
always the urge to polish the work, to move it one word or brush
stroke closer to an ever-elusive perfection; for the human being,
there is always the need to argue with inevitable mortality so as
to make the most of the life at hand.
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