Early in his career, Robert Creeley believed that his greatest contribution to literature would be in prose. Although he has since established himself as one of the most influential poets of the twentieth century, his remarkable body of prose work--instilled with a deep understanding of language and narrative form--remains an essential part of his oeuvre. In addition to his first book of short stories The Gold Diggers, a novel The Island, a radio play Listen, and Mabel: A Story, this omnibus edition includes two previously uncollected stories.
The principal difference between the early version and final text is Olson's ellision of an extended response to ... L'Universe concentrationaire ( Paris : Editions du Pavois , 1946 ) , mentioned by Olson in a letter to Creeley of 30 ...
Paul Celan lived through some of the worst episodes of modern history, losing his parents at the hands of the German army and surviving a period in a labor camp.
Brilliant and erudite, dazzling and witty, these essays survey the geography of humanity, its achievements and its foibles.
" This volume, the first critical edition of Robert Frost's prose, allows readers and scholars to appreciate the great American author's forays beyond poetry, and to discover in the prose that he did make public--in newspapers, magazines, ...
Poems and prose pieces personally selected by the playwright demonstrate the characteristics of his literary excursions outside the realm of drama.
This is the first collection of Robert Lowell's poetry which reveals a writer of unmistakeable brilliance who has a profound insight into the human condition.
Here are all of Stevens’s published books of poetry, side-by-side for the first time with the haunting lyrics of his later years and early work that traces the development of his art.
Following James Merrill's widely celebrated Collected Poems and Collected Novels and Plays, this volume gives us, most intimately, the man himself and his charmingly straightforward exploration of how he...
This is the first comprehensive critical edition of the unpublished writings of Pulitzer Prize-winning objectivist poet George Oppen (1908-1984).
Essays by the distinguished poet illuminate his philosophical beliefs as well as the principal themes found in the Cantos. Bibliogs