Book Paperback: The Sighted Singer: Two Works on Poetry for Readers and Writers

Book Paperback: The Sighted Singer: Two Works on Poetry for Readers and Writers Allen Grossman Pages: 400 Publish date: December 1, 1991 ISBN: 9780801842436 Type: Paperback *May have some wear from reading. Pages are intact and may come with some notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged but may have spine creases from reading. Description: “During a week in January 1981, poets Allen Grossman and Mark Halliday met for a series of conversations exploring "the meanings for us as poets arising from the difference between us-- differences of generation and education as well as of temperament and poetic style." The result was "Against Our Vanishing", which Charles Altieri called " the best in contemporary poetic thinking." "The Sighted Singer: Two Works on Poetry for Readers and Writers" makes available a revised and significantly expanded version of "Against Our Vanishing" and includes Grossman's recent treatise "Summa Lyrica: A Primer of the Commonplaces in the Speculative Poetics". This combined edition provides a sophisticated yet accessible discussion-- across generations-- of "the fundamental discourse of poetic structure". For students and teachers, for writers and readers, "The Sighted Singer" is a splendid introduction to both the tradition of poetry and its contemporary practice.”