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Conversation Pieces (Everyman's Library Pocket
[Hardback - 2007]
harold schechter
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Sub-category: Poetry
Additional Category: Classics - Collector's Editions
Publisher: Everyman's Library Uk | ISBN: 9781841597720 | Pages: 256
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To write a poem is to become part of a great conversation with one s literary predecessors, but the poems in this anthology are a special breed, their authors deliberately addressing a particular poem or poet of the past or present. They may be replies, reproofs, updatings, acts of sabotage or adulation; they may argue with, elaborate upon, poke fun at, or pay tribute to their originals. From Raleigh s famous answer to Marlowe s Passionate Shepherd , to Anthony Hecht s The Dover Bitch , from Ogden Nash sending up Byron to Mona Van Duyn giving us Leda s perspective on the swan or Annie Finch s Coy Mistress arguing her case with Marvell, these remarkable poems are not only engaging in themselves, but also capable of casting surprising new light on the poems which inspired them. Thisconversation of the greats includes Philip Larkin replying to Sir Philip Sidney, Ezra Pound to Edmund Waller, Randell Jarrell to W.H. Auden, Denise Levertov to Wordsworth, Galway Kinnell to Rilke, David Lehmann to Pound, C.K. Williams to Coleridge - and many more.

About the Author

Harold Schechter is an American true crime writer who specializes in serial killers. He attended the State University of New York in Buffalo where his PhD director was Leslie Fiedler. He is professor of American literature and popular culture at Queens College of the City University of New York.Schechter is married to poet Kimiko Hahn. He has two daughters from a previous marriage: the writer Lauren Oliver and professor of philosophy Elizabeth Schechter. His newest book, The Mad Sculptor, (about a sensational triple murder at Beekman Place in New York City in 1937) will be published in February 2014.

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