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Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
In the summer of 1953, an expatriated trio of young Americans -- Peter Matthiessen, Harold "Doc" Humes and George Plimpton -- founded the international literary quarterly, The Paris Review. Designed to welcome "the good writers and good poets, the non-drumbeaters and non-axe-grinders," as then 28-year old novelist William Stryon wrote in an inaugural essay, the Review has continued in this ecumenical spirit ever since. This documentary, on what has...
Author
Publisher
Melville House Publishing
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
From the award-winning New Yorker writer comes this essential volume spanning almost six decades. Admired for "a voice unlike any other" (Cynthia Ozick) and a style both "wry and poignant" (The New Yorker), Lore Segal is a master literary stylist. This volume collects some of her finest work—including new and uncollected writing—and selections from her novels, stories, and essays. From her very first story—which appeared in The New Yorker in...
Author
Publisher
University of California Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"This book collects some two dozen pieces from bestselling author Adam Hochschild, written over the past 25 years. All have been published before, most in the New York Review of Books but also in the New Yorker, Harper's, Mother Jones, and elsewhere. They are a mixture of essays about books, authors, one film, and the writing of history and on-the-ground journalism based on reporting from India, Africa, and elsewhere"--Provided by publisher.
Author
Publisher
Copper Canyon Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"A collection of poems by Gregory Orr"--
"For the past two decades, Gregory Orr has been writing toward 'the Book': an imagined tome containing every lyric poem and song ever written. Drawing from this rich tradition, [this book] is the culmination of that project and more -- it is a celebration of the transformative power of poetry, and of our extraordinary capacity to feel and to love" -- Back cover.
Author
Publisher
G. Braziller
Pub. Date
[1977]
Language
English
Description
Drawing extensively upon the poet's unpublished manuscripts poems, journals, essays, and letters as well as all his published works, Marjorie Perloff presents Frank O'Hara as one of the central poets of the postwar period and an important critic of the visual arts. Perloff traces the poet's development through his early years at Harvard and his interest in French Dadaism and Surrealism to his later poems that fuse literary influence with elements...
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