Shelf life : essays, memoirs and an interview / Thom Gunn
1993, First Edition. London : Faber and Faber. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust-wrapper. Particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Item #431586
ISBN: 0571171966
Physical description; viii, 230 pages ; 23 cm. Notes; Includes bibliographical references. Contents; Enmeshed with Time: The Sixteenth Century -- Forays against the Republic: Whitman -- Responsibilities: Contemporary Poetry and August Kleinzahler -- Three Hard Women: H.D., Marianne Moore, and Mina Loy -- What the Slowworm Said: Eliot, Pound, and Bunting -- As If Startled Awake: The Poetry of Janet Lewis -- Weedy Speech and Tangled Bank: Lorine Niedecker -- Out of the Box: Elizabeth Bishop -- Small Persistent Difficulties: Robert Creeley -- Living in the Present: Donald Hall -- A Record: Allen Ginsberg's Poetry -- Surefire Diver: Jack Sharpless -- Fever in the Morning: Jim Powell -- The High Road: A Last Collection -- Adventurous Song: Robert Duncan as Romantic Modernist -- Christopher Isherwood: Getting Things Right -- On a Drying Hill: Yvor Winters -- Two Saturday Nights: Rewriting a Poem -- An Anglo-American Poet: Interview with Jim Powell. Subjects; Gunn, Thom 1929-2004. Gunn, Thom Interviews. Gunn, Thom Biography. Gunn, Thom. 1900-1999. Poets, English 20th century ; Interviews. Poets, English 20th century ; Biography. Poetry Authorship. Poetics.
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