Letters to Jargon: The Correspondence Between Larry Eigner and Jonathan Williams

Celebrated by both the Black Mountain poets in the '50s and '60s and the Language poets in the '70s and '80s, Larry Eigner's poems occupy an important place in American poetry and poetics. This book gathers some of the most intimate, personal writing on life and the art of poetry by this crucial figure in late twentieth-century American letters.

About the author

Andrew Rippeon is visiting assistant professor of writing at Davidson College.

Summary

Celebrated by both the Black Mountain poets in the ‘50s and ‘60s and the Language poets in the ‘70s and ‘80s, Larry Eigner's poems occupy an important place in American poetry and poetics. This book gathers some of the most intimate, personal writing on life and the art of poetry by this crucial figure in late twentieth-century American letters.

Product details

• Assisted by: Andrew Rippeon (Editor)
• Publisher: Univ of Chicago Behalf of Univ of Alabama
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.09.2019
• EAN: 9780817359348
• ISBN: 978-0-8173-5934-8
• No. of pages: 348
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 28 mm
• Weight: 540 g
• Series: Modern & Contemporary Poetics; Modern & Contemporary Poetics; Modern and Contemporary Poetic
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies