The First Book : : Twentieth-Century Poetic Careers in America / / Jesse Zuba.
"We have many poets of the First Book," the poet and critic Louis Simpson remarked in 1957, describing a sense that the debut poetry collection not only launched the contemporary poetic career but also had come to define it. Surveying American poetry over the past hundred years, The First...
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Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2015] ©2016 |
Year of Publication: | 2015 |
Edition: | Pilot project. eBook available to selected US libraries only |
Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- 1. Apprentices to Chance Event
- 2. "Poets of the First Book, Writers of Promise"
- 3. "Everything Has a Schedule"
- 4. From Firstborn to Vita Nova
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index