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	Título: On Whitman
	Autor: Williams C. K.	Precio: $286.00
	Editorial: Princeton University Press	Año: 2010
	Tema: Literatura, Poesia, Analisis	Edición: 1ª
	Sinopsis	ISBN: 9780691144726
	In this book, Pulitzer Prize-winning poet C. K. Williams sets aside the mass of biography and literary criticism that has accumulated around the work and person of Walt Whitman, and attempts to go back to Leaves of Grass as he first encountered it, to explore why Whitman's epic "continues to inspire and sometimes daunt" him. The result is a personal reassessment and appreciation of one master poet by another, as well as an unconventional and brilliant introduction--or reintroduction--to Whitman. In brief, thematic chapters with many quotations from Leaves of Grass, Williams explores the innovations, originality, and sheer genius of the poetry that has become, as he puts it, "the unconscious" of much of the poetry of America and the world. Williams pays particular attention to the music of Whitman's poetry, its blazing perception and enormous human sympathy, its affecting anecdotes, and its vast cast of characters, as well as to the radical nature of Whitman's first-person speaker, his liberating attitude toward sex, and his unconventional ideas about death. While conveying the singularities of Whitman's work, Williams also shows what Whitman had in common with other great poets of his time, such as Baudelaire, and the powerful influence Whitman had on later poets such as Eliot and Pound. Beautifully written and rich with insight, this is a book that refreshes our ability to see Whitman in all his power. C. K. Williams's has won the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize. His most recent book of poetry is Wait from Farrar, Straus and Giroux. His other books include an essay collection, Poetry and Consciousness, and a memoir, Misgivings (Farrar, Straus and Giroux). He teaches creative writing and translation at Princeton University, and is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Table of Contents: Preface vii Note xiii The Music 1 The Past 5 Beginnings 9 Vision 14 Depths 21 The Man Before the Poems 23 Self-Made 27 The Notebooks 36 Emerson and the Greatest Poet 40 The Greatest Poet Submits a Poem for Publication 47 "I" 48 A Dare 54 "You" 57 America 65 The Modern, One: Baudelaire 74 Hugo and Longfellow 80 The Modern, Two: Eliot and Pound 83 Others 87 The Body 91 Sex 101 Woman 112 Lorca, Ginsberg, and "The Faggots" 119 Nature 129 Prophets 139 Imagination 149 Mortality 153 Mortality Again 163 The Sad Captain 171 Lines 172 The Voice 178 Life After 181 What He Teaches Us 184

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