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During a week in January 1981, poets Allen Grossman and Mark Halliday met for a series of conversations exploring "the meanings for us as poets arising from the difference between us-- differences of generation and education as well as of temperament and poetic style." The result was "Against Our Vanishing", which Charles Altieri called " the best in contemporary poetic thinking." "The Sighted Singer: Two Works on Poetry for Readers and Writers" makes available a revised and significantly expanded version of "Against Our Vanishing" and includes Grossman's recent treatise "Summa Lyrica: A Primer of the Commonplaces in the Speculative Poetics". This combined edition provides a sophisticated yet accessible discussion-- across generations-- of "the fundamental discourse of poetic structure". For students and teachers, for writers and readers, "The Sighted Singer" is a splendid introduction to both the tradition of poetry and its contemporary practice.

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Book category Books in English Literature & literary studies Literature: history & criticism Literary studies: poetry & poets

• Full title: Sighted Singer
• Subtitle: Two Works on Poetry for Readers and Writers
• Author: Allen Grossman
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 400
• EAN: 9780801842436
• ISBN: 0801842433
• ID: 04708474
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Weight: 606 g
• Dimensions: 151 × 229 × 33 mm
• Date of publishing: 26. January 1992

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