The Sighted Singer

Two Works on Poetry for Readers and Writers
revised and augmented Auflage
ISBN: 978-0-8018-4243-6
Verlag: Johns Hopkins University Press

Buch, Englisch, 400 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 653 g

During a week in January 1981, poets Allen Grossman and Mark Halliday met for a series of conversations exploring "the meanings for us as poets arising from the differences between us—differences of generation and education as well as of temperament and poetic styles." The result was Against Our Vanishing, which Charles Altieri called "the best in contemporary poetic thinking."

The Sighted Singer: Two Works on Poetry for Readers and Writers makes available a revised and significantlyexpanded version of Against Our Vanishing and includes Grossman's recent treatise "Summa Lyrica: A Primer of the Commonplaces in Speculative Poetry." This combined edition provides a sophisticated yet accessible discussion—across generations—of "the fundamental discourse of poetic structure." For students and teachers, for writers and readers, The Sighted Singer is a splendid introduction to both the tradition of poetry and its contemporary practice.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Grossman, Allen

Halliday, Mark

Weitere Mitwirkende

Halliday, Mark

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaften Semiotik

Über Autor(innen)

Halliday, Mark
Mark Halliday is the author of Stevens and the Interpersonal and Tasker Street, which received the Juniper Prize for 1991. He teaches English at Wilmington Friends School in Delaware.

Grossman, Allen
Allen Grossman is professor of English at the Johns Hopkins University. He is a MacArthur Foundation grant recipient and the author of many books of poetry, including The Bright Nails Scattered on the Ground and The Woman on the Bridge over the Chicago River.

Allen Grossman is professor of English at the Johns Hopkins University. He is a MacArthur Foundation grant recipient and the author of many books of poetry, including The Bright Nails Scattered on the Ground and The Woman on the Bridge over the Chicago River. Mark Halliday is the author of Stevens and the Interpersonal and Tasker Street, which received the Juniper Prize for 1991. He teaches English at Wilmington Friends School in Delaware.