A Commonplace Book of Pentastichs (Signed by editor)

Laughlin, James; Carruth, Hayden (edited with introduction)

ISBN 10: 0811213862 / ISBN 13: 9780811213868

Verlag: A New Directions Books, NY, 1998

Beschreibung

(1998), Near Fine/Near Fine dj, octavo, 94pp., maroon cloth hardcover, excellent unclipped ($19.95) pictorial dj, binding tight, text unmarked, Presented & Signed on half-title page by editor: "For Joanne and Bruce with love from Jo Ann [Laughlin] and Hayden, 2 Sept 2005.".

Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 12647

Bibliografische Details

• Titel: A Commonplace Book of Pentastichs (Signed by editor)
• Verlag: A New Directions Books, NY
• Erscheinungsjahr: 1998
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 0811213862
• ISBN-13: 9780811213868
• Einband: Hardcover
• Zustand: Near Fine

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Inhaltsangabe

James Laughlin (1914-97) was a poet of distinction as well as the founding publisher of New Directions. A Commonplace Book of Pentastichs, the last book of his own that he helped to prepare, is a compilation of 249 poems composed in a five-line stanza form first introduced in The Secret Room (1997). A note to “Thirty-nine Pentastichs” in that earlier volume explains: “a ’pentastich’ refers simply to a poem of five lines, without regard to metrics. The word is Greek derived, from pentastichos, though few survive from ancient times… The present selection is of recent short-line compositions in natural voice cadence, many of them marginal jottings and paraphrases of commonplace book notations.” Musing on the full collection, Hayden Carruth writes in his introduction: “For the reader it is a survey of literature that will never be found in the classroom––praise whatever gods may be––but indubitably will be found in loving and longlasting proximity on many a bedside table.” Here, then, are armchair marginalia and aperçus to be savored at random.

Über die Autorinnen und Autoren

Hayden Carruth (1921–2008) was a 20th century American poet, literary critic and editor.

James Laughlin (1914–1997) founded New Directions in 1936 while still a student at Harvard. He wrote and compiled more than a dozen books of poetry as well as stories and essays; seven volumes of his correspondence with his authors are available from W.W. Norton.