The castle of indolence : on poetry, poets, and poetasters /
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| Language: | English |
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New York :
Picador USA,
1995.
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| Edition: | First Picador USA edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- The castle of indolence
- The sound of the Raine, prophetic word [Kathleen Raine]
- Delectable always, and fresh and true [Kenneth Koch]
- Death and the poet [Peter Whigham]
- Fearing, and falling out of love
- Music that can deepest reach [Emerson, et al.]
- The difference
- Onegin's children : poems in the form of a novel [Budbill, Jarman, Mandel, Murray, Pollack]
- The new world [Frederick Turner]
- Sunlight, coffee, and the papers : a poem for our times [Vikram Seth]
- History : the home movie [Craig Raine]
- Christopher Fry : an appreciation.
- Snapped prose in slim volumes : a review of recent poetry [McKuen, Walker, Schultz, Stern, Koethe, Hill]
- Poets as friends and neighbors [Swenson, Morris, Wilbur, Merwin, Williamson]
- Poets of exile [Brodsky, Enzensberger]
- Out of the murk plectrum [John Ashbery]
- The last word on death [Anthony Hecht)
- Barroom buddy and the prom king [Carver, Leithauser]
- Products of the workshop [McClatchy, Klein, Ryan]
- Pompes postmoderne [Marjorie Perloff]
- The high priest of high times [Charles Olson biography]
- The occasion of the poem [Goldbarth, Levine, Cassity, Jones, Muldoon]
- A Nashional institution [Ogden Nash]
- Light verse
- Having an oeuvre [Hollander, Updike, Raab, Hoagland, Smith]
- Poetry roundup [Kinnell, Tate, Salter, Hacker, Wojahn, Hudgins, Lauterbach, Dove, Rogers, Williams]
- Reviewing poetry : a retrospect.