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More copies of this ISBN:This title in other formats:Inner Voices: Selected Poems, 1963-2003by Richard Howard
Synopses & ReviewsPublisher Comments:The poems of Pulitzer Prize-winner Richard Howard are noted for their unique dramatic force and for preserving, in their graceful, exquisitely wrought lines, human utterance at its most urbane. Here, in the first volume to draw together material from Howard's twelve books of poems, readers can fully appreciate the erudite nuances of his lyric poetry and the superb human and historical bravura of his dramatic monologues and imagined conversations among famous figures. Inner Voices leaves no doubt as to why Howard has been "a powerful presence in American poetry for 40 years" (The New York Times Book Review). Review:"Drawing on 12 previous volumes (including 1970's Pulitzer-winning Untitled Subjects), this big assortment plays to Howard's strengths — above all, to his impersonations and dramatic monologues. Howard's hyperarticulate sentences fit the preoccupations of his sophisticated personae, many of them 19th-century French and English writers and artists. John Ruskin, Henry James, the early photographer Nadar, Proust and Jane Morris (William's widow) all receive extended embodiments, as do the secretaries and intimates of other great artists. The book includes Howard's anthology hits, among them 'Nicholas of Mardruz' (a biting response to Browning) and 'Infirmities,' in which the aged Walt Whitman critiques the closeted Bram Stoker. His elaborate forms, or 'habitual/ disorders,' 'suffice to hold fast to the small/ change of small changes,' exploring regrets or assessing the pleasures of the flesh. Howard's later volumes grew more personal (and more successful) in revealing specifically gay male experience. On the whole, these densely figured poems justify the copious ambition they embody. Forecast: A translator of Stendhal, Barthes, Breton and many other major French writers, the poetry editor for the Paris Review and a prolific critic, reviewer and blurber, Howard is known to several generations of intelligentsia. This, his first selected, will be the one book of his poems many will buy. FSG plans a simultaneous release for a retrospective of Howard's critical writings, Paper Trail: Selected Prose 1965 — 2003." Publishers Weekly (Copyright 2004 Reed Business Information, Inc.) About the AuthorRichard Howard, is a poet, scholar, teacher, critic, and translator. Inner Voices is published simultaneously by FSG with Howard's Paper Trail: Selected Prose. He lives in New York City, where he teaches at Columbia University and is poetry editor of The Paris Review. What Our Readers Are SayingBe the first to add a comment for a chance to win!Product Details
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