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Circling the Canon, Volume I - (Recencies Series: Research and Recovery in Twentieth-Century) by Marjorie Perloff (Paperback)
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- One of our most important contemporary critics, Marjorie Perloff has been a widely published and influential reviewer, especially of poetry and poetics, for over fifty years.
- Author(s): Marjorie Perloff
- 320 Pages
- Literary Criticism, Modern
- Series Name: Recencies Series: Research and Recovery in Twentieth-Century
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Circling the Canon, Volume I covers roughly the first half of Perloff's career, beginning with her first ever review, on Anthony Hecht's The Hard Hours.Book Synopsis
One of our most important contemporary critics, Marjorie Perloff has been a widely published and influential reviewer, especially of poetry and poetics, for over fifty years. Circling the Canon, Volume I covers roughly the first half of Perloff's career, beginning with her first ever review, on Anthony Hecht's The Hard Hours. The reviews in this volume, culled from a wide range of scholarly journals, literary reviews, and national magazines, trace the evolution of poetry in the mid- to late twentieth century as well as the evolution of Perloff as a critic. Many of the authors whose works are reviewed in this volume are major figures, such as W. B. Yeats, Ezra Pound, Sylvia Plath, and Frank O'Hara. Others, including Mona Van Duyn and Richard Hugo, were widely praised in their day but are now all but forgotten. Still others--David Antin, Edward Dorn, or the Language poets--exemplify an avant-garde that was to come into its own.
Review Quotes
"A highly rewarding set of essay reviews, which covers a lot of literary poetic ground."--Clark Allison, Tears in the Fence
"Friend of John Cage and John Ashbery, indefatigable explainer of the avant-garde, Marjorie Perloff is a critic of international standing whose close readings analyze modernist seriousness as well as postmodernist playfulness, relishing especially the radical difficulty of the Language Poets she has long championed. . . . Her observation that 'the book review is by definition the site of controversy' rings true, as does her wish for the best literary criticism to be 'always, in the end, both evaluative and engaged.' The latter words certainly apply to her own."--Jules Smith, Times Literary Supplement
"I knew I was going to be entertained and informed by one of the most astute critics of our time and, particularly, of the avant-gardes of our time. Her inquisitive intelligence always turns up something new."--Robert Sheppard, Stride magazine
"This collection is a record of one of the best and most influential critical minds in contemporary poetry and poetics. It is both timely and timeless."--Yunte Huang, author of Transpacific Imaginations: History, Literature, Counterpoetics