The Promised Folly: Poetic Variations on Our Means to Happiness (Triquarterly Books) - Softcover

Hall, Judith

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0810151375 ISBN 13: 9780810151376

Verlag: Northwestern University Press, 2003

Inhaltsangabe

If, as Oscar Wilde said, "nothing ages like happiness," then nothing rejuvenates like a pursuit. That is certainly the American way, and inThe Promised Folly, Judith Hall takes a fresh look at our American pursuits and supreme fictions. She explores the folly that follows mere existence and gives it back to her readers in different voices-Venus, Walt Whitman, Julius Caesar, Ma Rainey voices that contain multitudes. Whitman will become Falstaff, for example, and Venus becomes Mars. Absurdities and incongruities such as these constitute for Hall opportunities for lyric pleasure. The resulting poems are puckish, sumptuous, and austere, by turns, and not incidentally compassionate.

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Über die Autorinnen und Autoren

Judith Hall is the author of To Put The Mouth To (William Morrow, 1992), which was selected for the National Poetry Series, and Anatomy, Errata (Ohio State, 1998), winner of the Ohio State University Press publication Award. She has received grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Ingram Merrill Foundation. Her poems have appeared in such magazines as The New Republic, The Paris Review, The Yale Review, and The Best American Poetry anthology series. She serves as poetry editor of The Antioch Review and teaches at California Institute of Technology.

Judith Hall is the poetry editor of The Antioch Review and teaches at the California Institute of Technology.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Northwestern University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2003
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0810151375
• ISBN 13: 9780810151376
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 96
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