ISBN 10 : 9780374712334
ISBN 13 : 0374712336

No art has been denounced as often as poetry. It's even bemoaned by poets: "I, too, dislike it," wrote Marianne Moore. "Many more people agree they hate poetry," Ben Lerner writes,..

ISBN 10 : 9780771048265
ISBN 13 : 0771048262

Novelist and poet Ben Lerner argues that our hatred of poetry is ultimately a sign of its continued relevance. Poetry. Perhaps Marianne Moore said it best: "I, too, dislike it." Wh..

ISBN 10 : 9780674976122
ISBN 13 : 0674976126

For 2,500 years literature has been condemned in the name of authority, truth, morality and society. But in making explicit what a society expects from literature, anti-literary di..

ISBN 10 : 9781556592461
ISBN 13 : 1556592469

Library Journal honored Lerner's debut volume as a "Book of the Year."..

ISBN 10 : 9781566892926
ISBN 13 : 1566892929

Adam Gordon is a brilliant, if highly unreliable, young American poet on a prestigious fellowship in Madrid, struggling to establish his sense of self and his relationship to art. ..

ISBN 10 : 9780300220940
ISBN 13 : 0300220944

Throughout Pascal Quignard’s distinguished literary career, music has been a recurring obsession. As a musician he organized the International Festival of Baroque Opera and Theat..

ISBN 10 : 9781922253644
ISBN 13 : 1922253642

Helen Garner is one of Australia’s greatest writers. Her short non-fiction has enormous range. Spanning fifteen years of work, Everywhere I Look is a book full of unexpected mome..