Best Words, Best Order

Essays on Poetry

S. Dobyns (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

398 Seiten

2003 | Second Edition 2003
Palgrave Macmillan (Verlag)
978-1-4039-6147-1 (ISBN)

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In this new edition of Best Words, Best Order, Stephen Dobyns further explains the mystery of the poet's work. For this new second edition, Dobyns has added two new essays, one dealing with the idea of "beauty" in poetry and another dealing with the almost mystical way poets connect seemingly disparate elements in a single work.

In this new edition of Best Words, Best Order, Stephen Dobyns further explains the mystery of the poet's work. Through essays on memory and metaphor, pacing, and the intricacies of voice and tone, and thoughtful appreciations of Chekhov, Ritsos, Mandelstam, and Rilke, Dobyns guides readers and writers through poetry's mysterious twilight communiques. For this new second edition, Dobyns has added two new essays, one dealing with the idea of "beauty" in poetry and another dealing with the almost mystical way poets connect seemingly disparate elements in a single work.

Stephen Dobyns is the author of eight volumes of poetry, among them Cemetery Nights and Velocities. He has also written 17 novels.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	30.5.2003
Zusatzinfo	XIV, 398 p.
Verlagsort	Gordonsville
Sprache	englisch
Maße	140 x 216 mm
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Lyrik / Dramatik ► Lyrik / Gedichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
	Naturwissenschaften
ISBN-10	1-4039-6147-6 / 1403961476
ISBN-13	978-1-4039-6147-1 / 9781403961471
Zustand	Neuware