Corrupted into Song : The Complete Poems of Alvin Feinman / Alvin Feinman; Deborah Dorfman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Feinman, Alvin, author.

Contributor:

Bloom, Harold.

Dorfman, Deborah, editor.

Geary, James.

Standardized Title:

Poems

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American poetry.

American poetry--20th century.

Genre:

Poetry.

Poetry

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (169 p.)

Place of Publication:

Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2016]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

According to Harold Bloom, "The best of Alvin Feinman's poetry is as good as anything by a twentieth-century American. His work achieves the greatness of the American sublime." Yet, in part because he published so sparsely, Feinman remained little-read and largely unknown when he died in 2008. This definitive edition of Feinman's complete work, which includes fifty-seven previously published poems and thirty-nine unpublished poems discovered among his manuscripts, introduces a new generation of readers to the lyrical intensity and philosophical ambition of this major American poet. Harold Bloom, a lifelong friend of Feinman, provides a preface in which he examines Feinman's work in the context of the strongest poets of his generation-John Ashbery, James Merrill, and A. R. Ammons-while the introduction by James Geary, who studied with Feinman at Bennington College, presents a biographical and critical sketch of this remarkable poet and teacher. Corrupted into Song restores Feinman's work to its rightful place alongside that of poets like Hart Crane and Wallace Stevens, with whom his poetry and poetics have so much in common.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Foreword

The Constant Crime of Speech

Preambles

Listening

The Unpublished Poems

Notes:

"Includes fifty-seven previously published poems and thirty-nine unpublished poems discovered among his manuscripts"--Page 4 of cover.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Mai 2019)

ISBN:

1-4008-8048-3

OCLC:

1132224294