Readings / Sven Birkerts.

Author/creator Birkerts, Sven
Format Book
Publication InfoSt. Paul, Minn. : Graywolf Press, ©1999.
Description263 pages ; 23 cm
Subjects

Contents The millenial warp -- American nostalgias -- Sense and semblance: the implications of virtuality -- The idea of the Internet -- Walking after midnight -- Only god can make a tree -- Reflections of a nonpolitical man; or, Why I can't in good conscience write about Noam Chomsky -- An open invitation to extraterrestrials -- Biography and the dissolving self -- The grasshopper on the windowsill -- States of reading -- Against the current -- Reading and depth of field -- Docufiction -- "Poetry" and "Politics" -- Running out of gas -- Second thoughts -- This year's canon -- When lightning strikes -- On a stanza by John Keats -- Rainer Maria Rilke -- Robert Lowell -- Seamus Heaney -- Atmospheres of identity: Elizabeth Bishop -- The leaning umbrella: a reflection on Flaubert -- A Gatsby for today -- Jack Kerouac -- Destinies of character -- Don DeLillo's Underworld.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references.
LCCN 98084453
ISBN1555972837

Availability

Library Location Call Number Status Item Actions
Joyner General Stacks PN771 .B475 1999 ✔ Available Place Hold