Broken ground : poetry and the demon of history /
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| Language: | English |
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New York :
Columbia University Press,
[2021]
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: Poetry and the demon of history
- Dickinson's nothings
- Verse chronicle : song and dance
- Verse chronicle : collateral damage
- The Iliad, reloaded (Alice Oswald)
- The beasts and the bees (Carol Ann Duffy)
- Two gents (August Kleinzahler and William Stafford)
- Kipling old and new
- Frost at letters
- Verse chronicle : seeing the elephant
- Verse chronicle : civil power
- Seven types of ambivalence : on Donald Justice
- A literary friendship (Donald Justice and Richard Stern)
- Randall Jarrell at the Y
- Flowers of evil (David Lehman)
- Verse chronicle : the glory days
- Verse chronicle : doing as the Romans do
- Meeting Mr. Hill
- The death of Geoffrey Hill
- Two strangers (Marie Ponsot and Ishion Hutchinson)
- The Jill Bialosky case
- Jill Bialosky, new revelations
- Verse chronicle : under the skin
- Verse chronicle : foreign affairs
- Mrs. Custer's Tennyson
- Sent to coventry : Larkin's "I remember, I remember"
- The state of criticism (On being asked to write on the "State of criticism")
- The perils of reviewing (On being asked, "What are the perils of criticism?")
- Verse chronicle : home and away
- Verse chronicle : hither and yon
- Pound's China, Pound's Cathay
- Interview with Jonathan Hobratsch (2015)
- Afterword: The way we live now.