That self-forgetful perfectly useless concentration /
This book looks at the role of conventions, of literary and social norms, in how we fashion our identities on and off the page, and how suffering both requires and resists self-expression. The author sketches affectionate portraits of his early teachers, revisits the deaths of his brother and sister...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Chicago :
University of Chicago Press,
2016.
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| Summary: | This book looks at the role of conventions, of literary and social norms, in how we fashion our identities on and off the page, and how suffering both requires and resists self-expression. The author sketches affectionate portraits of his early teachers, revisits the deaths of his brother and sister and examines poems that have helped him navigate troubled times. Integrating storytelling and literary analysis that art and life become extensions of each other, he embodies in his lively prose the very qualities he celebrates in the poems he loves. |
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| Physical Description: | 186 pages ; 23 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 185-186). |
| ISBN: | 9780226416816 022641681X 9780226416953 022641695X |