Synthesizing Gravity: Selected Prose by Ryan, Kay

Synthesizing Gravity: Selected Prose

The first-ever collection of essays by one of our most distinguished and distinctive poets, Pulitzer Prize-winner and...
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Author: Kay Ryan
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Synthesizing Gravity: Selected Prose by Ryan, Kay

Synthesizing Gravity: Selected Prose

$295.59

Synthesizing Gravity: Selected Prose

$295.59
Author: Kay Ryan
Format: Hardcover
Language: English

The first-ever collection of essays by one of our most distinguished and distinctive poets, Pulitzer Prize-winner and former Poet Laureate of the United States, Kay Ryan

Synthesizing Gravity gathers for the first time a thirty-year selection of Kay Ryan's probings into aesthetics, poetics, and the mind in pursuit of art.

A bracing collection of critical prose, book reviews, and her private previously unpublished soundings of poems and poets-- including Robert Frost, Stevie Smith, Marianne Moore, William Bronk, and Emily Dickinson-- Synthesizing Gravity bristles with Ryan's crisp wit, her keen off-kilter insights, and her appetite and appreciation for the genuine. Among essays like "Radiantly Indefensible," "Notes on the Danger of Notebooks," and "The Abrasion of Loneliness," are piquant pieces on the virtues of emptiness, forgetfulness, and other under-loved concepts. Edited and with an introduction by Christian Wiman, this generous collection of Ryan's distinctive thinking gives us a surprising look into the mind of an American master.



Author: Kay Ryan
Publisher: Grove Press
Published: 04/14/2020
Pages: 208
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.75lbs
Size: 7.20h x 5.10w x 1.20d
ISBN: 9780802148186


Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 01/13/2020
Kirkus Reviews 01/15/2020
Shelf Awareness 04/21/2020

About the Author
Kay Ryan is a lifetime Californian whose honors include the Pulitzer Prize and the National Humanities Medal awarded by President Obama. She served two terms as U.S. Poet Laureate and is a former MacArthur Fellow.

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