ECSTATIC OCCASIONS, EXPEDIENT FORMS, 65 LEADING CONTEMPORARY POETS SELECT AND COMMENT ON THEIR POEMS

Lehman, David, Editor

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ISBN 10: 0025702416 ISBN 13: 9780025702417

Published by MacMilan, NY/ London, 1987

Language: English

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ECSTATIC OCCASIONS, EXPEDIENT FORMS, 65 LEADING CONTEMPORARY POETS SELECT AND COMMENT ON THEIR POEMS

Publisher

MacMilan, NY/ London

Publication Date

1987

Language

English

ISBN 10

0025702416

ISBN 13

9780025702417

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Hardcover

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First Printing

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Fine

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Dust Jacket w New Mylar Cover

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Includes poems and essays by Cage, Ammons, Updike, Wilbur, Hecht, Oates, Disch, Morgan, Creeley, and Corn

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American poets tend to distrust received forms, yet Lehman, a book critic for Newsweek, notes a resurgence of formalism in American poetry. This anthology contains almost as many different forms as it does poems. John Updike's metrical light verse, Maxine Chernoff's prose poem about phantom pain after the loss of a leg, Dave Morice's six-word drinking song, Mona Van Duyn's ballad of the Maine countryside, along with sonnets, villanelles and exotic structures like fugues and pantoums (a Malayan form) attest to the formal concerns of contemporary poets. Several of the selections are of slight interest apart from the poets' commentaries on them. These glosses reveal that many poets are highly conscious of what they are doing. Among the contributors are Joyce Carol Oates, Robert Pinsky, Richard Wilbur, Amy Clampitt and Robert Creeley. (June
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