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Title: A Test of Poetry (Wesleyan Centennial Edition of the Complete Critical Writing) by Louis Zukofsky, Robert Creeley ISBN: 0-8195-6402-8 Publisher: Wesleyan University Press Pub. Date: 01 April, 2000 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (1 review)
Rating: 5
Summary: Give It All The Stars In The Sky
Comment: Poor poetry. Either it smothers under tons of academic pretension, or it is retailed as pop entertainment in poetry slams. It seems sometimes that Robert Pinsky is the only one with a good handle on the popular appeal of this emotional/intellectual art. But I bet you Pinsky has this book and refers to it regularly. This is the most hard-headed, economical poetry criticism, completely free of cant and pretension; equally free of stylishness. Zukovsky gives us, as Donald Barthelme once wrote, "the red meat on the rug." The form of the book is disarmingly simple: Selected quotes, side by side, with the occasional footnote. Zukovsky lets you figure things out yourself, and when you refer to his notes, you are nearly always rewarded with the notion that you and he are at least on the same planet when it comes to deciding what is good and what is not so good about poetry. Some of the selections in Middle English or Scots dialect are tough going, but you soon discover that it is as much sound as meaning that is important. In any event, there are plentiful and helpful footnotes. If you're lucky, you've never read any poetry criticism and can leap into this book unbiased and unafraid. If (like your reviewer) you had to read a lot of it in college, you'll feel positively liberated.
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Title: Prepositions+: The Collected Critical Essays (Wesleyan Centennial Edition of the Complete Critical Writing) by Louis Zukofsky, Charles Bernstein, Mark Scroggins ISBN: 0819564281 Publisher: Wesleyan University Press Pub. Date: 01 May, 2001 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Complete Short Poetry by Louis Zukofsky ISBN: 0801856566 Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press Pub. Date: 01 May, 1997 List Price(USD): $25.95 |
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Title: A by Louis Zukofsky ISBN: 0801846684 Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press Pub. Date: 01 September, 1993 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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Title: Life & Death by Robert Creeley ISBN: 0811214494 Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation Pub. Date: September, 2000 List Price(USD): $9.95 |
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Title: If I Were Writing This by Robert Creeley ISBN: 0811215563 Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation Pub. Date: September, 2003 List Price(USD): $21.95 |
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