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  • THE LYRIC NOW
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    THE LYRIC NOW
    JAMES LONGENBACH
    For more than a century, American poets have heeded the siren song of Ezra Pound’s make it new, staking a claim for the next poem on the supposed obsolescence of the last. But great poems are forever rehearsing their own present, inviting readers into a nowness that makes itself new each time we read or reread them. They create the present moment as we enter it, their language ...

    $385.24

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  • THE RESISTANCE TO POETRY
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    THE RESISTANCE TO POETRY
    JAMES LONGENBACH
    Poems inspire our trust, argues James Longenbach in this bracing work, because they don't necessarily ask to be trusted. Theirs is the language of self-questioning—metaphors that turn against themselves, syntax that moves one way because it threatens to move another. Poems resist themselves more strenuously than they are resisted by the cultures receiving them. But the resistan...

    $490.35

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  • DRAFT OF A LETTER
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    DRAFT OF A LETTER
    JAMES LONGENBACH
    From Second Draft: What other people learn From birth, Betrayal, I learned late. My soul perched On an olive branch Combing itself, Waving its plumes.  I said Being mortal, I aspire to Mortal things. I need you, Said my soul, If you’re telling the truth. Draft of a Letter is a book about belief—not belief in the unknowable but belief in what seems bewilderingly plain. Pondering...

    $367.72

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