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Toward the End of the Century: Essays into Poetry - Softcover

Dodd, Wayne

 
9780877452560: Toward the End of the Century: Essays into Poetry
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0877452563 ISBN 13: 9780877452560
Publisher: University Of Iowa Press, 1992

Synopsis

Meditations on mortality, modernity, and contemporary poetry, informed by the work of a large number of modern and postmodern poets. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.

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Reviews

The essays collected in this slim volume might more appropriately be read as journal entries. They are fragmentary, disjointed thoughts-for the most part not fully explored or developed-rather than carefully investigated formulations. Frequently Dodd restates the obvious: Poems are never merely.... They are their own uses. They are not resolved, they are entered. Dodd probes the meaning of language, the use and misuse of metrics. He attempts to relate poetry to science and to other art forms. Filled with phrases such as I believe, I think, or it seems to me, these essays seem to pose hypotheses-both to readers and to the author himself. From a major writer, a highly subjective stance can be effective; but Dodd's work is not distinctive enough-even though he has published 11 books of poetry-to sustain this introspective technique. Were his own opinions stronger, they might spark readers into a dialogue, but there is little to argue with here. Perhaps the most valuable aspect of these essays is Dodd's ability to combine the thoughts of poets, mathematicians and scientists in interesting ways. Dodd is editor of the Ohio Review.
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Publisher
University Of Iowa Press
Publication date
1992
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0877452563
ISBN 13 
9780877452560
Binding
Paperback
Edition number
1
Number of pages
154