A Strong Dose of Myself

Book by Dannie Abse

Including essays by some of this century's most prestigious literary critics -- Allen Tate, Yvor Winters, William Carlos Williams, R. P. Blackmur, R. W. B. Lewis, and Harold Bloom, among others -- this collection provides a thorough and telling introduction to Crane and his works, especially his collections of lyrical poetry, The Bridge and White Buildings. The volume is edited by Allen Trachtenberg, who has written extensively on Crane and his Whitman-like relationship to American culture.

Don't be left out! Meet the boy with the golden nose, visit places like Caughtshort and Flatworm. Drop into the Space News Agency for the latest intergalactic update! All this and more can be found in this collection of children's verses.

The Description for this book, Signs and Wonders: Poems by Carl Dennis, will be forthcoming.

Jerome Rothenberg's Poland /1931, a continuing series of ancestral poems, has been appearing in installments over the course of five years, published in limited edition by various small presses.

When this book was first published in 1969, Richard Howard set himself the overwhelming task of a critical examination in detail of forty-one American poets as widely different as James Merrill and Gary Snyder, some celebrated and some obscure, who had at that time published at least two volumes of work establishing a characteristic identity. He thought of these poets as representing and dramatizing the achievement of American poetry since 1950, following the "established" achievement of Berryman, Elizabeth Bishop, Jarrell, Lowell, Roethke and Wilbur. In this new and enlarged edition, one hundred pages longer than the original volume, he has added essays to many of the original chapters, dealing with new work by the poets originally examined but leaving the original text unchanged.

'Although he was not one of the most prolific writers of his time, A.M. Klein has acquired through the excellence of his five books one of the highest literary reputation in North America. His influence on and encouragement of the younger Jewish writers of the United States and Canada is undeniable when we consider the works of such artists as Leonard Cohen, Irving Layton, Morecai Richler and numerous others. A.M. Klein's poetry draws heavily on the Jewish-North America experience. He knows the past and his traditions and expresses them with magnificence and density. His awareness of the urban-ethnic predicament and the incredible demands imposed by social difference and personal aspirations expresses itself in literary brilliance. His imagery is uniquely mythopoeic, his structures are truly elaborate ; his knowledge and understanding of the historical and the individual have remark scope and focus. The Collected poems of A.M. Klein is not only composite available collection of the poet's work, it is a testament to Klein's creative genius. He was a scholar, a politician, a social reformer, an artist, a craftsman, a dreamer....There have been very few writers like A.M. Klein.'- Publisher

From An Explanation of America : LAIR Robert Pinsky ? Inexhaustible, delicate, as if Without source or medium, daylight Undoes the mind; the infinite, Empty actual is too bright, Scattering to where the road Whispers, through a mile of woods ... Later, how quiet the house is: Dusk-like and refined, The sweet Phoebe-note Piercing from the trees; The calm globe of the morning, Things to read or to write Ranged on a table; the brain A dark, stubborn current that breathes Blood, a deaf wadding, The hands feeding it paper And sensations of wood or metal On its own terms. Trying to read I persist a while, finish the recognition By my breath of a dead giant's breath-- Stayed by the space of a rhythm, Witnessing the blue gulf of the air.

Drawing extensively upon the poet's unpublished manuscripts--poems, journals, essays, and letters--as well as all his published works, Marjorie Perloff presents Frank O'Hara as one of the central poets of the postwar period and an important critic of the visual arts. Perloff traces the poet's development through his early years at Harvard and his interest in French Dadaism and Surrealism to his later poems that fuse literary influence with elements from Abstract Expressionist painting, atonal music, and contemporary film. This edition contains a new Introduction addressing O'Hara's homosexuality, his attitudes toward racism, and changes in poetic climate cover the past few decades. "A groundbreaking study. [This book] is a genuine work of criticism. . . . Through Marjorie Perloff's book we see an O'Hara perhaps only his closer associates saw before: a poet fully aware of the traditions and techniques of his craft who, in a life tragically foreshortened, produced an adventurous if somewhat erratic body of American verse."--David Lenson, Chronicle of Higher Education "Perloff is a reliable, well-informed, discreet, sensitive . . . guide. . . . She is impressive in the way she deals with O'Hara's relationship to painters and paintings, and she does give first-rate readings of four major poems."--Jonathan Cott, New York Times Book Review

A black artist describes his life, from his birthplace in Brooklyn to his adopted home, Ghana, and how various experiences helped him develop new aspects of his talent.

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