On Leave - A book of anecdotes

A book "of" and "about" literary anecdotes, "On Leave" pays homage to the poets of small press poetry publishing, including poets of the British, American, and Irish avant-garde, while tracking the events of the author's year on leave from university work.

Sommario

• Introduction
• One Thing After Another, Or, Quitting Taffety for Cloth
• Daybook
• Shooting the Air
• From Chicago
• to Buffalo
• Being and Time
• Callers
• Of God, Man,
• and Animals
• Out of Line
• Of the Avant-Garde and Its Others
• Puerto Vallarta
• More Callers
• Daybook
• Junk
• From Orono to Yellow Springs
• Les Anecdotiques
• All in the Family
• On the Road
• Acknowledgments

Info autore

Keith Tuma is the author of Fishing by Obstinate Isles: Modern and Postmodern British Poetry and American Readers (Northwestern, 1998) and editor of Anthology of Twentieth-Century British and Irish Poetry (Oxford, 2001). He teaches at Miami University in Ohio.

Riassunto

A book of and about literary anecdotes, On Leave pays homage to the poets of small press poetry publishing, including poets of the British, American, and Irish avant-garde, while tracking the events of the author’s year on leave from university work.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Keith Tuma, Tuma Keith
• Editore: Pan macmillan Ltd.
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 15.12.2011
• EAN: 9781844714865
• ISBN: 978-1-84471-486-5
• Dimensioni: 127 mm x 203 mm x 12 mm
• Categorie: Narrativa > Romanzi > Epistole, diari; Saggistica > Arte, letteratura > Biografie, autobiografie; Scienze umane, arte, musica > Scienze linguistiche e letterarie > Letteratura generale e comparata; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Literary Figures, Biography: literary, Biography: writers, Literature of the United States of America (USA)