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Type(s) de contenu et mode(s) de consultation : Texte noté : sans médiation
Auteur(s) : Laughlin, James (1914-1997)
Titre(s) : Byways [Texte imprimé] : a memoir / James Laughlin ; edited with an introduction and notes by Peter Glassgold ; preface by Guy Davenport
Publication : New York : New directions, 2005
Description matérielle : xxiv, 323 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references (285-319)
"James Laughlin, the late founder and publisher of New Directions, was also a poet
of elegance and distinction. Upon his death in 1997 at the age of eighty-three, he
left unfinished his long autobiographical poem, Byways. It is no exaggeration to say
that his publishing house, which he began in 1936 while still an undergraduate at
Harvard, changed the way Americans read and write serious literature. Yet the man
who published, promoted, and kept in print the work of some of the greatest writers
of the twentieth century remained resistant for most of his life to the memoiristic
impulse. In the end, he found his autobiographical voice not in conventional narrative
but in verse, adopting the swift-moving line of Kenneth Rexroth's booklength philosophical
poem, The Dragon and the Unicorn (1952)."-- BOOK JACKET
Autre(s) auteur(s) : Glassgold, Peter (1939-....). Éditeur scientifique
Davenport, Guy (1927-2005). Préfacier
Sujet(s) : Laughlin, James (1914-1997) -- Poésie
Indice(s) Dewey :
811.54 (23e éd.) = Poésie américaine de langue anglaise - 1945-1999 [critique]
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 0811215989. - ISBN 9780811215985. - ISBN 0811216179. - ISBN 9780811216173. -
ISBN 0811216179 (rel.)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb39266598k
Notice n° :
FRBNF39266598
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Table des matières : Preface / / Guy Davenport ; ; Introduction / / Peter Glassgold ; ; Prologue -- the
Norfolk Santa -- dawn -- ; ancestors -- ; iceman cometh -- ; My shoelaces -- ; My
paternal grandmother -- ; Are we too old to make love? -- ; Harvard -- Boston -- Rapallo
-- ; Toni or Nini? -- ; My aunt -- ; Remembering William Carlos Williams -- ; old
bear : Kenneth Rexroth -- ; Tom Merton -- ; rubble railroad -- ; wrong bed -- Moira
-- ; yellow pad -- ; desert in bloom -- ; In Trivandrum -- ; Melissa -- ; Brown --
; Epilogue : an honest heart ... a knowing head.