William Logan (1)
Autor von The Undiscovered Country: Poetry in the Age of Tin
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William Logan is Alumni/ae Professor at the University of Florida. His works of criticism include Broken Ground: Poetry and the Demon of History (Columbia, 2021), and he is the author of eleven books of poetry. Logan has won the inaugural Randall Jarrell Award in Poetry Criticism, the Aiken Taylor mehr anzeigen Award in Modern American Poetry, the Staige D. Blackford Prize for Nonfiction, the Allen Tate Prize, and the National Book Critics Circle Award in Criticism. weniger anzeigen
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You have to come to this collection with an understanding that his view of what passes for good poetry is very narrow. I don't simply mean that he expects a certain level of skill or creativity, though that is part of it and no doubt what he believes his opinions to be. But more important is his disdain for the vast majority of anything other than very formal, conservative poetry (speaking of form here, not politics). This applies to his appraisal of others as well as the poetry he writes himself. If you only value that same narrow portion of poetic expression, you may well agree with much of his criticism.
Even with his inflated sense of self he offers a reader a lot of insight into the ways in which a poem can be more or less effective. Paying attention to the elements he looks at within a poet's work helps us to also look at those same things. We may disagree with him about how well they succeed, especially if it is something outside his narrow preference, but looking at a poem through the eyes of a poet is useful for those of us who are not poets (in the sense of verse) even if we are trained in literature but mostly prose, which he views with disdains except, maybe, in "small doses."
One thing I noticed is that when I went back and reread some of what he was so negative about I both understand it better (thanks to him) and appreciated it more (in spite of him). So if you enjoy poetry but don't enjoy wrestling with it at times, then you might not enjoy this book, even though it is entertaining. I can't say I was laughing with him but I don't think he much cares that I was laughing at him. If you enjoy reading poetry and find pleasure in word choice and the sound of some words when strung together, you will likely find a lot to appreciate about this book, no matter what your opinion of his opinions are.
Reviewed from a copy made available by the publisher via NetGalley.… (mehr)