J. D McClatchy
Author
Series
Library of America volume 172
Publisher
Library of America
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Publisher
Knopf
Pub. Date
2000.
Language
English
Description
"From backyard to barnyard, from hawks to hummingbirds, from pelicans to peacocks, from Coleridge's albatross to Keats's nightingale to Poe's raven - all manner of feathered beings, the inspiration for poetic flights of fancy through the ages, are gathered together in this volume."--Jacket.
Author
Publisher
Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"It was, improbably, the forerunner of our digital age: a French poem about a shipwreck published in 1897 that, with its mind-bending possibilities of being read up and down, backward and forward, even sideways, launched modernism. Stéphane Mallarmé's "One Toss of the Dice," a daring, twenty-page epic of ruin and recovery, provided an epochal "tipping point," defining the spirit of the age and anticipating radical thinkers of the twentieth century,...
Author
Publisher
Knopf
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
Presents the epic poem relating the interaction of the author and his partner with spirits through a Ouija board, which includes the smaller works "The Book of Ephraim," "Mirabell's Books of Number," "Scripts for the Pageant," and "Coda: the Higher Keys", along with the author's stage adaptation of the poem.