The next bend in the road / Michael Fried.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Fried, Michael.

Series:

Phoenix poets.

Phoenix poets

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American poetry.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (100 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Chicago : University of Chicago Press, c2004.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"In America today there is no lyric work more compelling and well made than To the Center of the Earth," Allen Grossman wrote ten years ago of Michael Fried's last collection of poetry. Fried's new book, The Next Bend in the Road, is a powerfully coherent gathering of lyric and prose poems that has the internal scope of a novel with a host of characters, from the poet's wife and daughter to Franz Kafka, Paul Cézanne, Osip Mandelstam, Sigmund Freud, Gisèle Lestrange, and many others; transformative encounters with works of art, literature, and philosophy, including Heinrich von Kleist's "The Earthquake in Chile," Giuseppe Ungaretti's "Veglia," and Edouard Manet's Le Déjeuner sur l'herbe; and, running through the book from beginning to end, a haunted awareness of the entanglement of the noblest accomplishments and the most intimate joys with the horrors of modern history.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Acknowledgments

I. THE SEND-OFF

II. THE NEXT BEND IN THE ROAD

III. A SUMMER NIGHT

Notes

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 81-85) and index.

ISBN:

9786612584718

9781282584716

1282584715

9780226263267

0226263266

OCLC:

638859551