C. K. Williams

On Whitman (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Pulitzer Prize-winning poet C. K. Williams's personal reflection on the art of Walt Whitman

In this book, Pulitzer Prize-winning poet C. K. Williams sets aside the mass of biography and literary criticism that has accumulated around Walt Whitman and attempts to go back to Leaves of Grass as he first encountered it-to explore why Whitman's epic "continues to inspire and sometimes daunt" him. The result is a personal reassessment and appreciation of one master poet by another, as well as an unconventional and brilliant introduction to Whitman. Beautifully written and rich with insight, this is a book that refreshes our ability to see Whitman in all his power.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Princeton University Press
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. März 2010
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781400834334
• Artikelnr.: 38275566

Autorenporträt

C. K. Williams (1936-2015) won the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize. He taught creative writing and translation at Princeton University.

Inhaltsangabe

"Whitman, the great New York poet, cries out for evangelization, not explication. Accordingly, in this sweet slip of a book, Williams, himself an eminent poet, lets Walt speak freely, filling many pages with favorite passages, most frequently from the original
Leaves of Grass,' of 1855. Williams's own prose is chatty and loose, dipping into big categories like
Nature' and
America' with the casualness of a Sunday social call."--Leo Carey, New Yorker