2005, ISBN: 067003410X

[EAN: 9780670034109], Gebraucht, guter Zustand, [PU: Viking], POETRY, ESSAYS, Advance Reading Copy of Uncorrected Proofs in paperback. Bright, clean & tight copy, unread, in FINE conditio… More...

[EAN: 9780670034109], Gebraucht, guter Zustand, [PU: Viking], POETRY, ESSAYS, Advance Reading Copy of Uncorrected Proofs in paperback. Bright, clean & tight copy, unread, in FINE condition. "In her six collections of poetry, Ann Lauterbach has won acclaim for poems that explore the ways in which language simultaneously omits and defines our experience of reality. Lauterbach's dazzling range of formal strategies, her search for methods that engage contemporary issues of identity, event, and description extend to her prose writings, gathered for the first time in THE NIGHT SKY: WRITINGS ON THE POETICS OF EXPERIENCE. At the center of this new book are a series of seven essays, originally written in the mid-1990s, which engage the interstices between poetics, politics, and memoir. Lauterbach advocates an active engagement with language, at once imaginative, philosophical, and practical; these writings demonstrate a radical relationship between how and what we know. By turns meditative and polemical, lyrical and descriptive, they argue for the centrality of art in a democratic society. Also included in this wide-ranging book are brilliant, provocative essays on Whitman and Emerson, illuminating remarks on contemporary poetics and on the work of poets Fanny Howe, Michael Palmer, Rosmarie Waldrop, and Barbara Guest, as well as considerations of artists David Smith, John Currin, Gerhard Richter, and Joe Brainard." [publisher copy] "The nimble and glimmering essays in THE NIGHT SKY offer many insights into Lauterbach's life and poetics. She writes of her journalist father's early death. She muses on the nature of myth, and the difference between information and knowledge. She does write of stars and constellations and the dark, but for all the wonder of the sensuous, she confides that for many poets 'language is the material of the world.' It is a pleasure to see the forthright and communal side of Lauterbach, the side, one imagines, that inspires her to teach; the source, too, of her gracefully articulate arguments on behalf of poetry and all of art. And how perceptively she marvels over the vitality of today's poetry in spite of its utter neglect by society-at-large, and how eloquently she concludes that art is crucial to living a 'life well spent' and to the well-being of a democratic society."--Donna Seaman, Booklist. "The mystery and longing in Ann Lauterbach's work, the wit and heart are the things we feel on our skin."--Don DeLillo. Pristine paperback ARC w/brilliant corners & crisp edges, a square & tight binding w/no creases in spine & no jacket as issued, in bright illustrated wraps featuring a Joe Brainard collage., Books<

2005, ISBN: 9780670034109

Hardcover, Slight rubbing to slipcase/sleeve Good condition is defined as: a copy that has been read but remains in clean condition. All of the pages are intact and the cover is intact an… More...

Hardcover, Slight rubbing to slipcase/sleeve Good condition is defined as: a copy that has been read but remains in clean condition. All of the pages are intact and the cover is intact and the spine may show signs of wear. The book may have minor markings which are not specifically mentioned. Most items will be dispatched the same or the next working day. , [PU: Viking Pr]<

2005, ISBN: 9780670034109

Viking Adult, 2005. First Viking. Hardback, Dustjacket. Like New, slight wear to cover., Viking Adult, 2005, 5

2005, ISBN: 9780670034109

Viking Adult, 2005-05-05. hardcover. Good. 6x1x9., Viking Adult, 2005-05-05, 2.5