Rich in opinion and theory, After Confession offers the first thorough
discussion on the lyric "I"—the boundaries between literal and
emotional truth, memory and imagination, person and persona, narcissism
and revelation.
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" The Black Interior, a critical look at some of black America's
most influential cultural voices, may be another such
masterpiece....Best known for her poetry, it may be that poet's
lyricism and eye for nuance that makes this new work so compelling." —SAVOY
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"Scholar and writer Gerald Early has compiled an anthology of personal
essays from a wide-ranging group of fiction writers, poets and
academics about their own encounters with sports. The result is a rich
collection on topics as far-flung as rodeo riding, playing tennis in a
tornado and pool hustling." —Chicago Tribune
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"In nine brilliant essays, Baxter displays his characteristic wit and
intelligence as he muses about the influences of culture and politics
on the art of storytelling." —Ploughshares
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"Beautifully written essays that deftly explore the act of
memoir-making and the art of storytelling. Ranging from tales of trauma
and loss to quotidian and even banal events, they probe the tension
between memory and forgetting and the mysteries of how we do each." —Library Journal
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"No poet will read this book without learning something new about the
nuances of the craft, and no critic will read it without realizing the
need for such liveliness." —Library Journal
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"Can Poetry Matter? is an important book, and anyone who professes to
care about the state of American poetry will have to take it into
account." —World Literature Today
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"Readers of Carl Phillips's poetry will have some preparation for the
pleasures and insights of this volume, particularly its subtlety,
originality, and historical range. Yet Coin of the Realm will also be
admired as a prose work that stands alone. Incisive essays on George
Herbert, the Psalms, the place of race and identity in habits of
perception and reading, and the author's growth as a writer are unified
by central questions of beauty and ethics that will be of interest to
anyone who cares about literature." —Susan Stewart
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"[Drew's] criticism is sharp-edged, to the point, and nearly
inarguable....A solid, well-argued, and sometimes radical plea for a
better-built environment." —Kirkus Reviews
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"In these insightful essays, even the writing itself is cinematic, as
Sprengnether's memories and quick film summaries meld into one another,
making it seem as if the author hasn't just seen many movies, but has
actually lived one." —Publishers Weekly
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This moving, eighteen-month exchange of correspondence chronicles the friendship-through-the-mail
of two extraordinary writers.
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The whole of The Catcher in the Rye is in the Oxford English Dictionary, waiting to be unscrambled, and so are all the novels of our past, present, and immediate future.
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Celebrated poet and author of Can Poetry Matter? offers another bold
and insightful collection of essays on literature's changing place in
contemporary culture.
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In this powerful sequence of TV images and essay, Claudia Rankine
explores the personal and political unrest of our volatile new century.
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"John Haines is a master writer, as we have known for years. Now this
book reveals more: a range of intelligence and affection such that I
cannot imagine any reader being unmoved by them. It is a great and
splendid book." —Hayden Carruth
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“A book of unparalleled beauty, sharpness of observation, wit, delicacy, strength of vision and rare exactness of language.” —The Daily Telegraph
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"Here is an essayist who fears nothing." —Andrei Codrescu
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"Kenyon writes prose the way she writes poetry, turning simple or
frankly unbeautiful things sideways and inviting us to see what they
offer us to love." —The New Yorker
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A witty and fiercely original book about poetry, the body, and the life
of the artist by a poet whose writing "refuses to cut emotional corners
and yet achieves a sense of lyric absolution" (Seamus Heaney).
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"Goldbarth marries emotions, thoughts, and events we never thought to
see in proximity to one another; through his genius we rediscover the
world's history and our own. No one else now is writing what Albert
Goldbarth gives us because no one else can." —Frederick Busch
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