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Genre/Form: | Electronic books Criticism, interpretation, etc |
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Additional Physical Format: | Print version: Balakian, Peter, 1951- Vise and shadow (DLC) 2014038951 (OCoLC)890757450 |
Material Type: | Document, Internet resource |
Document Type: | Internet Resource, Computer File |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Peter Balakian |
ISBN: | 9780226254470 022625447X |
OCLC Number: | 918984053 |
Description: | 1 online resource (xii, 279 pages, 4 unnumbered pages of plates) : color illustrations |
Contents: | Poetry as civilization: Primo Levi and Dante at Auschwitz -- The poem as history -- Ingesting violence: the poetry of witness problem -- Theodore Roethke's lost son and the confessional era -- Hart Crane's Broken tower -- Poet from Kars: Yeghishe Charents and Armenia's modern age -- Collage and its discontents -- Arshile Gorky: from the Armenian genocide to the avant-garde -- The Anatolian embrace: Greeks and Armenians in Elia Kazan's America, America -- Siamanto's bloody news -- Bob Dylan in suburbia -- Writing horizontal: notes toward the poem as space. |
Other Titles: | Essays on the lyric imagination, poetry, art, and culture |
Responsibility: | Peter Balakian. |
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"Vise and Shadow belongs on a shelf alongside the literary essays of J. M. Coetzee, Adrienne Rich, and Seamus Heaney-all of whom are absorbed by the very same questions haunting and inspiring Balakian." (Askold Melnyczuk, author of The House of Widows) Read more...

