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The Man in the Wall Hardback - 1993
by Laughlin, James
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- Title The Man in the Wall
- Author Laughlin, James
- Binding Hardback
- Edition Hardcover
- Condition Used - Near Fine
- Pages 118
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher New Directions, NYNY
- Publication date 1993
- Bookseller's Inventory # 11131
- ISBN 9780811212366 / 081121236X
- Weight 0.5 lbs (0.23 kg)
- Dimensions 9.31 x 6.3 x 0.66 in (23.65 x 16.00 x 1.68 cm)
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Themes
- Ethnic Orientation: African American
- Category Literature - Classics / Criticism
- Library of Congress Catalogue Number 92045790
- Dewey Decimal Code 811.54
- Quantity available 1
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From the rear cover
James Laughlin has been called the American Catullus. Like that most Greek of ancient Latin poets, he elevates his everyday subjects with wit and clarity of language. Love and hate, death and aging, politics, literature, travel, the horrors of war - Laughlin's muse speaks of all these things with a fresh directness that makes his poems both timeless and contemporary. The founder of New Directions, Laughlin's efforts as publisher and poet have been to prolong and extend the old poetic traditions. Poetry for him is, in Gertrude Stein's phrase, a "continuous present" in all times and cultures. Laughlin developed his distinctive tight metrics with the advice of William Carlos Williams. A longer, comical line is found in the recent poems of Laughlin's doppelganger, Hiram Handspring. The Man in the Wall follows Laughlin's recent Collected Poems (Moyer Bell Limited).
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Citations
- Booklist, 05/15/1993, Page 1670
