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A Difficult Grace: On Poets, Poetry, and Writing
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A Difficult Grace: On Poets, Poetry, and Writing Paperback - 2000

by Michael Ryan

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"[In] preliterate societies, even those as late as ancient Greece and Anglo-Saxon England, the poet is the ideologue, historian, theologian, philosopher, TV, newspaper, Internet, and megamultiplex cinema rolled into one"--so begins Michael Ryan's lively description of the cultural context of ancient poetry, in pointed contrast to that of poetry now. Informed by his own experience as a poet and writer, A Difficult Grace examines the lives and works of Dickinson, Yeats, Pound, Eliot, Williams, Whitman, Frost, Bishop, and Stevens (as well as other poets and writers before and since), deftly combining literary history, critical writing by the writers themselves, and Ryan's expert understanding of their work. The result is a collection of powerfully argued essays written in a style easily accessible to a wide range of readers. Attending to the difficult graces of form, structure, rhythm, and technique, Ryan illuminates the unifying subject of his book: the vocation of the poet and the writer in the contemporary world. This is an essential book for both writers and readers.

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  • Title A Difficult Grace: On Poets, Poetry, and Writing
  • Author Michael Ryan
  • Binding Paperback
  • Pages 200
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher University of Georgia Press, Athens
  • Publication date 2000-10
  • ISBN 9780820322315 / 0820322318
  • Weight 0.61 lbs (0.28 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.25 x 5.5 x 0.55 in (20.96 x 13.97 x 1.40 cm)
  • Category Poetry
  • Library of Congress subjects Poetry, American poetry - 20th century - History and
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 00026110
  • Dewey Decimal Code 811.009

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MICHAEL RYAN is the author of three poetry collections, including In Winter and God Hunger, and of the memoir Secret Life. His work has been honored by the Lenore Marshall Prize, a Whiting Writers Award, the Yale Series of Younger Poets Award, and a Guggenheim Fellowship, among many other awards. Ryan is a professor of English and creative writing at the University of California, Irvine.

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