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Breakfast served any time all day : essays on poetry new and selected / Donald Hall.
LIBRA PS3515.A3152 B74 2003
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hall, Donald, 1928-2018.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Poetry.
- American poetry--History and criticism.
- American poetry.
- English poetry--History and criticism.
- English poetry.
- Physical Description:
- 220 pages ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, [2003]
- Summary:
- Master of American letters Donald Hall collects forty years of writings on poetry in one essential volume -- Breakfast Served Any Time All Day. Hall's essays concentrate on the sensuality of poems, lavish bodies of language created by the senses for the spirit by way of the senses. These essays understand poetry as one inside talking to another inside through the medium of sound. We read poems best -- Hall says -- not with our eyes or ears but with our mouths. Breakfast begins with an essay addressed to the general reader, an attempt to introduce poetry to people not initially comfortable with the art, maybe shy or unsure, but willing to dare an approach. These essays should appeal to those who desire to taste the beauties that poetry offers. Hall's emphasis lies not on poetry's ostensible content, but on its pleasures, less on ideas and more on vowels and the dance of rhythm. Therefore this book can be a corrective to readings of poetry that emphasize what is paraphrasable.
- Contents:
- The Unsayable Said 1
- Death to the Death of Poetry 7
- Metallic Flowers 15
- The Expression without the Song 20
- The Vatic Voice 27
- Goatfoot, Milktongue, Twinbird 31
- Journal Notes 41
- Marvell's Manyness 59
- Long Robinson 70
- Robert Frost Corrupted 81
- Pound's Sounds 100
- Kenneth Rexroth 106
- James Wright: Lament for a Maker 115
- William Carlos Williams and the Visual 132
- Pythagoras, Form, and Free Verse 138
- Notes on the Image 143
- Theory x Theory 147
- Poetry and Ambition 154
- Polonius's Advice to Young Poets 171
- Starting and Keeping On 175
- Hall's Index 180
- Size and Scale 187
- Naming the Skin 190
- On Moving One's Lips, While Reading 206
- The Way to Say Pleasure 211.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN:
- 0472098527
- OCLC:
- 52160278
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