Uncertainty and Plenitude: Five Contemporary Poets - Hardcover

Stitt, Peter

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0877455996 ISBN 13: 9780877455998

Publisher: University Of Iowa Press, 1997

Synopsis

Distinguished critic and editor the Gettysburg Review, Peter Stitt writes about five of his favorite poets: John Ashbery, Stephen Dobyns, Charles Simic, Gerald Stern, and Charles Wright.

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Review:

Peter Stitt, a distinguished critic as well as the editor of the Gettysburg Review, has put together a fascinating study of five contemporary American poets: John Ashberry, Stephen Dobyns, Charles Simic, Gerald Stern, and Charles Wright. Stitt examines the writers' habitual strategies, subject matters, resonances to larger cultural issues, and aesthetic strengths and weaknesses. It's tough to make generalizations about an extant literary period, but by focusing his observations on these five poets, Stitt makes some modest, reasonable claims about the current state of poetry that are supported by strong readings of the poems themselves.

About the Author:

Peter Stitt is the founding and ongoing editor of The Gettysburg Review and the author of two books on American poetry, The World's Hieroglyphic Beauty (Georgia, 1987), cited by The New York Times Book Review as a notable book of the year; and Uncertainty and Plenitude (Iowa, 1997). He is a professor of English at Gettysburg College in Pennsylvania.

About this edition

• Publisher: University Of Iowa Press
• Publication date: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0877455996
• ISBN 13: 9780877455998
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 210