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The fierce embrace : a study of contemporary American poetry / Charles Molesworth.
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Molesworth, Charles, 1941-2022.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- O'Hara, Frank.
- Ginsberg, Allen, 1926-1997.
- Lowell, Robert, 1917-1977.
- American poetry--20th century--History and criticism.
- American poetry.
- Roethke, Theodore, 1908-1963.
- Roethke, Theodore.
- Lowell, Robert, 1917-1977--Criticism and interpretation.
- Lowell, Robert.
- Ginsberg, Allen, 1926-1997--Criticism and interpretation.
- Ginsberg, Allen.
- O'Hara, Frank--Criticism and interpretation.
- Ashbery, John, 1927-2017--Criticism and interpretation.
- Ashbery, John.
- Ashbery, John, 1927-2017.
- Criticism and interpretation.
- Kinnell, Galway, 1927-2014.
- Kinnell, Galway.
- Bly, Robert.
- Levine, Philip, 1928-2015.
- Levine, Philip.
- Genre:
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- x, 214 pages ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Columbia ; London : University of Missouri Press, 1979.
- Contents:
- "We have come this far": audience and form in contemporary poetry
- "Songs of a happy man": the poetry of Theodore Roethke
- Republican objects and Utopian moments: the poetry of Robert Lowell and Allen Ginsberg
- "With your own face on": confessional poetry
- Interchapter: The poet and the poet's generation
- "The clear architecture of the nerves": the poetry of Frank O'Hara
- "The rank flavor of blood": the poetry of Galway Kinnell
- "Rejoicing in the gathering dark": the poetry of Robert Bly
- Interchapter: The metaphors for the poem
- "The burned essential oil": the gestures of Philip Levine
- "This leaving-out business": the poetry of John Ashbery
- Interchapter: Magazines and magazine verse
- Reflections in place of a conclusion.
- Notes:
- "Cover art by Jerry Dadds."
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Molesworth, Charles, 1941- Fierce embrace.
- ISBN:
- 0826202780
- 9780826202789
- 0826202837
- 9780826202833
- OCLC:
- 4776803
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