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Informationen zum Autor Robert Polito is a poet, essayist, and critic whose works include Hollywood & God and Doubles . Additionally, his critical works include A Reader’s Guide to James Merrill’s The Changing Light at Sandover and At the Titan’s Breakfast: Three Essays on Byron’s Poetry . Polito has served as president of the Poetry Foundation and hosts a radio show aimed at showcasing emerging poets called PoetryNow. Klappentext Robert Polito recounts Thompson's relationship with his father, a disgraced Oklahoma sheriff, with the women he adored in life and murdered on the page, with alcohol, would-be censors, and Hollywood auteurs. Unrelenting and empathetic, casting light into the darker caverns of our collective psyche, Savage Art is an exemplary homage to an American original. A National Book Critics Circle Award winner. 57 photos. Zusammenfassung Robert Polito recounts Thompson's relationship with his father! a disgraced Oklahoma sheriff! with the women he adored in life and murdered on the page! with alcohol! would-be censors! and Hollywood auteurs. Unrelenting and empathetic! casting light into the darker caverns of our collective psyche! Savage Art is an exemplary homage to an American original. A National Book Critics Circle Award winner. 57 photos.
