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The music of time : poetry in the twentieth century /

Poetry helps us to make sense of our world, transforming what the Russian poet Osip Mandelstam called the "noise of time" into a kind of music. The Music of Time is a unique history of twentieth-century poetry by one of today's most acclaimed poets, blending incandescent personal medi...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Burnside, John, 1955- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Princeton ; Oxford : Princeton University Press, [2020]
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Ghostly music in the air
  • Everyone sang
  • L'infinito
  • Einen reinen Vorgang
  • The grief that does not speak
  • The power of the visible
  • A very young policeman exploding
  • An old chaos of the sun
  • Weltenton
  • La razón poética
  • Why look at animals?
  • A stony invitation to reflect
  • A golden age of poetry and power
  • Where turtles win
  • Sólo tú, alma mía
  • Like a stripèd pair of pants
  • Tantalus in love
  • A gift to the future
  • The panic of the adversary
  • The bat-poet
  • To reclaim lost space
  • A towering strangeness
  • The poets in Ghana.