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Against the Evidence: Selected Poems, 1934 1994
Rare poetry concerning human mortality and alienation.For over half a century, David Ignatow has crafted spare, plain,...
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Rare poetry concerning human mortality and alienation.
For over half a century, David Ignatow has crafted spare, plain, haunting poetry pf working life, urban images, and dark humor. The poetic heir of Whitman and William Carlos Williams, Ignatow is characteristically concerned with human mortality and human alienation in the world: the world as it is, defined by suffering and despair, yet at crucial times redeemed by cosmic vision and shared lives. His development as a poet is chronicled in Against the Evidence, title of the poem in part quoted above and meant by Ignatow as the metaphor for the whole body of his work.
Where his previous collections have been organized thematically, Ignatow here arranges his poems "according to the decade in which they were written...returning each to its chronological order." Against the Evidence charts the evolution of his themes from the earliest origin in the Thirties to their present extraordinary manifestation in a variety of poetic forms and modes.
Author: David Ignatow
Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
Published: 01/01/1994
Pages: 196
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.68lbs
Size: 8.98h x 6.04w x 0.61d
ISBN: 9780819512147
Review Citation(s):
Booklist 02/01/1994 pg. 990
Library Journal 03/15/1994 pg. 75
About the Author
DAVID IGNATOW has published fifteen volumes of poetry and three prose collections. Born in Brooklyn, he has lived most of his life in the New York metropolitan area, working as editor of American Poetry Review and Beloit Poetry Journal, and poetry editor of The Nation. Ignatow received both the Shelley Memorial Award (1966) and the Frost Medal (1992). He has received the Bollingen Prize, two Guggenheim fellowships, and countless other awards.
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For over half a century, David Ignatow has crafted spare, plain, haunting poetry pf working life, urban images, and dark humor. The poetic heir of Whitman and William Carlos Williams, Ignatow is characteristically concerned with human mortality and human alienation in the world: the world as it is, defined by suffering and despair, yet at crucial times redeemed by cosmic vision and shared lives. His development as a poet is chronicled in Against the Evidence, title of the poem in part quoted above and meant by Ignatow as the metaphor for the whole body of his work.
Where his previous collections have been organized thematically, Ignatow here arranges his poems "according to the decade in which they were written...returning each to its chronological order." Against the Evidence charts the evolution of his themes from the earliest origin in the Thirties to their present extraordinary manifestation in a variety of poetic forms and modes.
Author: David Ignatow
Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
Published: 01/01/1994
Pages: 196
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.68lbs
Size: 8.98h x 6.04w x 0.61d
ISBN: 9780819512147
Review Citation(s):
Booklist 02/01/1994 pg. 990
Library Journal 03/15/1994 pg. 75
About the Author
DAVID IGNATOW has published fifteen volumes of poetry and three prose collections. Born in Brooklyn, he has lived most of his life in the New York metropolitan area, working as editor of American Poetry Review and Beloit Poetry Journal, and poetry editor of The Nation. Ignatow received both the Shelley Memorial Award (1966) and the Frost Medal (1992). He has received the Bollingen Prize, two Guggenheim fellowships, and countless other awards.
This title is not returnable
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