Overview :Poems inspire our trust, argues James Longenbach in this bracing work, because they don't necessarily ask to be trusted. Theirs is the langu... Read More
Overview :Threshold is an extraordinary first collection that explores the shifting spaces between differing states of human experience. James Longenb... Read More
Overview :An illuminating look at the many forms of poetry's essential excellence by James Longenbach, a writer with "an ear as subtle and assured as ... Read More
Overview :"Earthling" is one of the oldest words in the English language, our original word for ploughman, a keeper of the earth. In poems simultaneou... Read More
Overview :In this book, James Longenbach develops a fresh approach to major American poetry after modernism. Rethinking the influential "breakthrough"... Read More
Overview :Praised for a voice with the crystalline, transformative, pure pitch of a lyric poet (Ilya Kaminsky), James Longenbach explores a life lived... Read More
Overview :Standing on the shore, preparing to journey into the unknown, James Longenbach wrote these final poems with astonishing courage and clarity.... Read More
Overview :Although readers of modern literature have always known about the collaboration of W.B. Yeats and Ezra Pound, the crucial winters these poet... Read More
Overview :Wallace Stevens the poet and Wallace Stevens the insurance executive: for more than one critical generation it has seemed as if these two me... Read More
Overview :The Art Of series is a new line of books reinvigorating the practice of craft and criticism. Each book will be a brief, witty, and useful ex... Read More
Overview :Each of the twelve chapters of How Poems Get Made examines a specific aspect of the poetic medium: diction, syntax, rhythm, echo, figure, re... Read More