The old formalism : character in contemporary American poetry / Jonathan Holden.

Author/creator Holden, Jonathan
Format Book
Publication InfoFayetteville : University of Arkansas Press, 1999.
Descriptionxx, 144 pages ; 24 cm
Subjects

Contents Character in contemporary American poetry -- American male poetry of sensibility -- Character weakness: mauvaise foi -- Sex and poetry -- Rhetoricity -- The public nature of end-rhymed poems -- The old formalism -- Leonard Nathan: poet as Odysseus -- Ted Kooser: the Chekhov of American poetry -- Richard Hugo's gift to us: the permission of emotional honesty -- The poet as clown -- William Stafford: genius in camouflage -- The judge is fury: the moral urgency of Mary Kinzie's Ghost ship -- Divine honors: Hilda Raz and the music of pain.
General noteIncludes index.
LCCN 99038397
ISBN1557285683 (alk. paper)
ISBN1557285691 (pbk. : alk. paper)

Availability

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Joyner General Stacks PS310.S34 H65 1999 ✔ Available Place Hold