Nightmare begins responsibility

Harper, Michael

Verlag: University of Illinois Press, Urbana, Chicago, London, 1975

Beschreibung

First edition, 8vo, pp. ix, [1], 97, [3]; fine copy in publisher's brown cloth, unclipped dust jacket with slight rubbing. From the library of Kim Merker. This copy signed by Harper on the title page and with a presentation from him to Kim Merker on the front free endpaper: "For Kim, from Michael, 16 June 75." Harper (1938-2016) was the first poet laureate of Rhode Island. "Known for his innovative use of jazz rhythms, cultural allusion, historical referent, and personal narrative, Harper was 'a deeply complex poet whose mission is to unite the fractured, inhumane technologies of our time with the abiding deep well of Negro folk traditions,' wrote John Callahan in the New Republic. Poetry reviewer Paul Breslin noted that Harper did this by drawing "upon black history, literature, and myth" (Poetry Foundation). When he retired from Brown University in 2013, where he had taught literature, poetry, and creative writing since 1970, he was the longest serving professor of English and Literary Arts at that institution. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 62873

Bibliografische Details

Titel: Nightmare begins responsibility

Verlag: University of Illinois Press, Urbana, Chicago, London

Erscheinungsdatum: 1975

Einband: Hardcover

Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Schutzumschlag

Signiert: Signatur des Verfassers

Auflage: 1. Auflage