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Word Play Place: Essays on the Poetry of John Matthias
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Word Play Place: Essays on the Poetry of John Matthias Hardback - 1998

by Robert Archambeau; Robert Archambeau (Editor)

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The poetry of John Matthias has long been admired by other poets for the way it refuses to be categorized. Lyrical and experimental, cosmopolitan and rooted in place, it challenges our received notions of what poetry can be at the end of the twentieth century. This volume introduces the work of this significant American poet to readers previously unfamiliar with it and enriches the reading of those who have long admired it. The essays collected here treat Matthias's career from its beginnings under the tutelage of John Berryman and Yvor Winters through its engagement with modern and postmodern poetics. With contributions from John Peck, Michael Anania, Peter Michelson, and ten other critics, Word Play Place is the first sustained treatment of the poetry of this writer who stands outside the mainstream of American poetry in our time, and is guided by an aesthetic that has not been easy to define. This collection emphasizes how readers ought to approach Matthias's work in all its ambition, its richness, and its strangeness.

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  • Title Word Play Place: Essays on the Poetry of John Matthias
  • Author Robert Archambeau; Robert Archambeau (Editor)
  • Binding Hardback
  • Edition First Edition
  • Pages 272
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Swallow Press, Athens
  • Publication date December 30, 1998
  • ISBN 9780804010085 / 0804010080
  • Category Poetry
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 98019478
  • Dewey Decimal Code 811.54

About the author

Robert Archambeau is a poet and a critic. He teaches English at Lake Forest College in Illinois.

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