One of the Dangerous Trades: Essays on the Work and Workings of PoetryAn examination of the poet's place in society as seen by a poet who is also a publisher. |
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... University of Michigan 1991 All rights reserved Published in the United States of America by The University of Michigan Press Manufactured in the United States of America 1994 1993 1992 1991 4 3 2 1 Library of Congress Cataloging - in ...
... University of Michigan 1991 All rights reserved Published in the United States of America by The University of Michigan Press Manufactured in the United States of America 1994 1993 1992 1991 4 3 2 1 Library of Congress Cataloging - in ...
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... University of Washington . Though often hospitalized and often drunk , he had pressed poems on toward the “ far field ” of his childhood , a glassed - in paradise of unfettered sensibility , and he had listened back through the ...
... University of Washington . Though often hospitalized and often drunk , he had pressed poems on toward the “ far field ” of his childhood , a glassed - in paradise of unfettered sensibility , and he had listened back through the ...
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... University Press , a man whom I came to like enormously . I was not sorry to put some distance between me and my family , nor to aban- don the metropolis , nor to say goodbye to the woman with whom I had formed my first extended love ...
... University Press , a man whom I came to like enormously . I was not sorry to put some distance between me and my family , nor to aban- don the metropolis , nor to say goodbye to the woman with whom I had formed my first extended love ...
Contents
One of the Dangerous Trades | 3 |
The Great Predicament of Poetry | 11 |
The Refuge of the Present Tense | 17 |
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