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Stealing glimpses : of poetry, poets, and things in between : essays / by Molly McQuade.
LIBRA Special PS323.5 .M4 1999b
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- McQuade, Molly.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- American poetry--20th century--History and criticism.
- American poetry.
- Genre:
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 275 pages ; 24 cm
- Edition:
- Uncorrected Proofs.
- Place of Publication:
- Louisville, Ky. : Sarabande Books, [1999]
- Summary:
- "In her first collection of essays, Molly McQuade performs the role of the ideal reader - passionately interested in ideas and irrepressibly ambivalent. She considers poetry from its composition or translation to its publication, critical reception, and consumption. Her close readings of poems by Emily Dickinson and John Ashbery, among others, offer new insights for those readers blinded by familiarity. She reflects on the consequences of literary friendships, such as Marianne Moore and Elizabeth Bishop's, and contends with hostile influences and their benefits - in her own case, confronting and absorbing the work of E.B. White."--BOOK JACKET. "But McQuade refuses to stay within the lines that describe poetry per se. Her thoughts on the genre are also enriched by discussions of distinctly nonverbal poetic expression in painting and film, theater and dance."--Jacket.
- Contents:
- A Word Predator
- The Poetry of Goats
- The Wit of William Matthews
- Stealing Glimpses
- Poets and Their Friends
- True Confession
- Squirming Cuneiform: When a Dance Is a Poem
- Ashbery's Stand-Up Comedy
- Barbara Guest's Drama
- Short Survey of Scruples
- Against the Gate
- A Questing: Adrienne Rich
- Waste Lands
- The Poetry of Paucity
- Oopalie Operajita
- The Subject of a Poem Is Astonishment: Charles Simic
- The Cost of Poetry
- Margaret Amanuensis
- Lorrie "Metaphor" Moore
- The Small Press Muse and Its Difficulties
- Poets Are Not a Special Breed: Galway Kinnell
- Mortal Immortal
- Bookless
- Address Book
- Harriet's Ghost
- Pleasures of a Critic
- The Slant of the Sidelong: Partiality and a Poet.
- Local Notes:
- Gotham Book Mart Collection copy has press release and letter to Philip Ahrens laid in at front.
- Gotham Book Mart Collection copy has author bio attached to p.3 of cover.
- OCLC:
- 919161037
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