Rhode Island Notebook

Gudding, Gabriel

ISBN 10: 1564784797 / ISBN 13: 9781564784797

Editore: Dalkey Archive Press, 2007

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Riassunto:

Not since On the Road has a book been more thoroughly of the road. Unlike Kerouac's novel, however, this book was literally written on the road in Gudding's own car, on pad and paper while driving. Rhode Island Notebook is the handwritten account of one driver's journey to happiness in the face of grief. This book-length poem chronicles the break-up of a family and the separation of a father and daughter, while at the same time recording the rise of jingoism in the United States in the moments before and during the invasion of Iraq.

"Rhode Island Notebook is a modern/postmodern epic as a poem-including-everything. An incredibly human(e) book at bottom, it is also Guddings road of excess, as Blake once had it, leading him (and us) to the palace of wisdom."Jerome Rothenberg

"This is a remarkably vulnerable book, a dapple-drawn vortex sutra, a contemporary odyssey, an anti-Baudrillardic-bardic remapping of America. It is a meditation on loss and fecundity, an amazing read, a necessary read, by an amazing poet. . . . This is the first 21st-century classic."Alan Sondheim

"In a crowded field, Gudding's work demands attention."Boston Review

Informazioni sugli autori: Gabriel Gudding is the author of A Defense of Poetry. His work has been translated into several languages and appears in numerous periodicals and such anthologies as Great American Prose Poems: From Poe to the Present and as translator in such anthologies as Poems for the Millennium, The Whole Island: Six Decades of Cuban Poetry, and The Oxford Anthology of Latin American Poetry. He holds graduate degrees from Cornell and Purdue Universities and is a professor of creative writing, literature, and poetics at Illinois State University.

Gabriel Gudding is the author of Rhode Island Notebook (Dalkey Archive Press, 2007) and A Defense of Poetry (Pitt, 2002). His essays and poems appear in such periodicals as Harper's Magazine, The Nation, and Journal of the History of Ideas, in such anthologies as Great American Prose Poems, Best American Poetry, and &Now: Best Innovative Writing. His translations from Spanish appear in anthologies such as The Oxford Book of Latin American Poetry, Poems for the Millennium, and The Whole Island: Six Decades of Cuban Poetry.

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Titolo: Rhode Island Notebook
Casa editrice: Dalkey Archive Press
Data di pubblicazione: 2007
Legatura: paperback
Condizione: New