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The first book : twentieth-century poetic careers in America /

"'We have many poets of the First Book, ' the poet and critic Louis Simpson remarked in 1957, describing a sense that the debut poetry collection not only launched the contemporary poetic career but also had come to define it. Surveying American poetry over the past hundred years, The...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Zuba, Jesse (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [2016]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
UPCC book collections on Project MUSE. Literature Supplement.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : The History of the Poetic Career
  • Apprentices to Chance Event : First Books of the 1920s
  • "Poets of the First Book, Writers of Promise" : Beginning in the Era of the First-Book Prize
  • "Everything Has a Schedule" : John Ashbery's Some Trees
  • From Firstborn to Vita Nova : Louise Glück's Born-Again Professionalism
  • Conclusion : Making Introductions.