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From sorrows well : the poetry of Hayden Carruth / Shaun T. Griffin, editor.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Under discussion
- Under Discussion
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Carruth, Hayden, 1921-2008--Criticism and interpretation.
- Carruth, Hayden.
- Carruth, Hayden, 1921-2008.
- Criticism and interpretation.
- Genre:
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource.
- Place of Publication:
- Ann Arbor : The University of Michigan Press, 2013.
- System Details:
- text file
- Summary:
- Hayden Carruth survived isolation, mental health problems, and long struggle with drink and smoke to produce a vision of modern poetry rooted in the New England tradition but entirely his own. Many feel his best poems emerged from the isolation of rural Vermont, and his poems often are concerned with rural images and metaphors reflecting the land and hardscrabble people around him. Together with his second love, jazz, Carruth's rural experiences infuse his poems with engaging and provocative ideas even as they present sometimes stark topics. This volume collects essays and poems from such notable contributors as Donald Hall, Marilyn Hacker, Adrienne Rich, Philip Booth, Matthew Miller, and Sascha Feinstein, among many others. The book's sections concern the kinds of writings, and the values expressed in his writings, for which Carruth was most famous, including what editor Shaun T. Griffin calls "social utility," jazz, his impoverished rural environment, and "innovation" in poetic form.
- Contents:
- 1 Realist-the social art of a solitary man
- Poem: Paragraph for Hayden / Marilyn Hacker Hacker, Marilyn 6
- An Interview with Hayden Carruth / David Weiss Weiss, David 7
- A Tool or a Weapon, a review of For You: Poems and Vie Clay Hill Anthology / Adrienne Rich Rich, Adrienne 22
- A Meaning of Hayden Carruth / David Rivard Rivard, David 27
- Elegiac Locales: The Anarchy of Hayden Carruth / Stephen Kuusisto Kuusisto, Stephen 40
- On Hayden Carruth: The Poetics of Social Utility / Douglas Unger Unger, Douglas 48
- The Real and Only Sanity, an Essay-Review of Brothers, I Loved You All / Geoffrey Gardner Gardner, Geoffrey 60
- From the Introduction to Working Papers: Selected Essays and Reviews / Judith Weissman Weissman, Judith 70
- 2 Jazzman-a lifetime of devotion to jazz, blues, and improvisation in his poetry and essays
- Poem: Blues Sestina for Hayden Carruth / Sascha Feinstein Feinstein, Sascha 80
- A Love Supreme: Jazz and the Poetry of Hayden Carruth / Matt Miller Miller, Matt 82
- When You Use Your Head, Your Ears Fall Off: My Twenty Years of Listening to Music with the Supernumerary Cockroach / David Budbill Budbill, David 95
- Those Upward Leaps: An Interview with Hayden Carruth / Sascha Feinstein Feinstein, Sascha 103
- Freedom and Discipline: Hayden Carruth's Blues / Brian Henry Henry, Brian 113
- Harmonic Hayden / Baron Wormser Wormser, Baron 128
- Listening In, an Essay-Review of The Sleeping Beauty / Sam Hamill Hamill, Sam 143
- 3 Survivor-writing through poverty, personal chaos, and literary isolation
- Poem: Evening Star / Joe-Anne McLaughlin McLaughlin, Joe-Anne 154
- Text as Test, an Excerpt from an Essay-Review of The Sleeping Beauty and Galway Kinnell's Selected Poems / Donald Hall Hall, Donald 156
- My Friend Hayden / Wendell Berry Berry, Wendell 160
- Selected Correspondence, from The Letters of Robert Duncan and Denise Levertov 171
- Thriving on Hardship / Lynne Sharon Schwartz Schwartz, Lynne Sharon 182
- Others Call It God / Carolyn Kizer Kizer, Carolyn 191
- 4 Innovator-creator of multiple poetic forms like the "para-graphs," the "georgics," the Vermont poems, and the epic poems
- Poem: A Few Riffs for Hayden, Sitting in with His Horn / Philip Booth Booth, Philip 198
- Hayden Carruth / Marilyn Hacker Hacker, Marilyn 200
- Being Human, the Art of Hayden Carruth / Ben Howard Howard, Ben 209
- Beautiful Dreamers: Helen in Egypt and The Sleeping Beauty / Charlotte Mandel Mandel, Charlotte 233
- Poem: The Soft Time of the Year / Hayden Carruth Carruth, Hayden 240.
- Notes:
- Description based on information from the publisher.
- ISBN:
- 047211896X
- 9780472121175
- Publisher Number:
- 10.3998/mpub.5911194
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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