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One Kind of Everything: Poem and Person in Contemporary America

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UPC:
9780226103839
Maximum Purchase:
2 units
Binding:
Paperback
Publication Date:
2011-06-15
Release Date:
2007-03-01
Author:
Dan Chiasson
Language:
english
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One Kind of Everything elucidates the uses of autobiography and constructions of personhood in American poetry since World War II, with helpful reference to American literature in general since Emerson. Taking on one of the most crucial issues in American poetry of the last fifty years, celebrated poet Dan Chiasson explores what is lost or gained when real-life experiences are made part of the subject matter and source material for poetry. In five extended, scholarly essayson Robert Lowell, Elizabeth Bishop, Frank Bidart, Frank OHara, and Louise GlckChiasson looks specifically to bridge the chasm between formal and experimental poetry in the United States. Regardless ofform, Chiasson argues that recent American poetry is most thoughtful when it engages most forcefully with autobiographical material, either in an effort to embrace it or denounce it.