A Commonplace Book of Pentastichs: Poetry - Rilegato

Laughlin, James; Carruth, Hayden

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ISBN 10: 0811213862 ISBN 13: 9780811213868

Casa editrice: New Directions, 2009

Riassunto

The founder of New Directions publishing, who passed away in 1997, left behind this collection of 249 pentastichs, poems comprised of five lines with no regard to metrics, written in a natural cadence and culled primarily from marginal jottings in other books.

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James Laughlin (1914-97) was a poet of distinction as well as the founding publisher of New Directions. A Commonplace Book of Pentastichs, the last book of his own that he helped to prepare, is a compilation of 249 poems composed in a five-line stanza form first introduced in The Secret Room (1997). A note to "Thirty-nine Pentastichs" in that earlier volume explains: "A 'pentastich' refers simply to a poem of five lines, without regard to metrics. The present selection is of recent short-line compositions in natural voice cadence, many of them marginal jottings and paraphrases of commonplace book notations." Here, then, are armchair marginalia and apercus to be savored at random.

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• Editore: New Directions
• Data di pubblicazione: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0811213862
• ISBN 13: 9780811213868
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 94