Stealing glimpses
Stealing glimpses: of poetry, poets, and things in between: essays Molly McQuade,
Publisher: Louisville, Ky. : Sarabande Books, c1999.
ISBN: 1889330256
DDC: 810.9005
LCC: PS323.5
Edition: (cloth : alk. paper)
Summary:
In her first collection of essays, Molly McQuade performs the role of
the ideal reader - passionately interested in ideas and irrepressibly
ambivalent. She considers poetry from its composition or translation
to its publication, critical reception, and consumption. Her close
readings of poems by Emily Dickinson and John Ashbery, among others,
offer new insights for those readers blinded by familiarity.
She reflects on the consequences of literary friendships, such as
Marianne Moore and Elizabeth Bishop's, and contends with hostile
influences and their benefits - in her own case, confronting and
absorbing the work of E. B. White. But McQuade refuses to stay within
the lines that describe poetry per se. Her thoughts on the genre are
also enriched by discussions of distinctly nonverbal poetic
expression in painting and film, theater and dance.
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