The Sighted Singer: Two Works on Poetry for Readers and Writers

During a week in January 1981, poets Allen Grossman and Mark Halliday met for a series of conversations exploring "the meanings for us as poets arising from the difference between us-- differences of generation and education as well as of temperament and poetic style." The result was "Against Our Vanishing", which Charles Altieri called " the best in contemporary poetic thinking."

"The Sighted Singer: Two Works on Poetry for Readers and Writers" makes available a revised and significantly expanded version of "Against Our Vanishing" and includes Grossman's recent treatise "Summa Lyrica: A Primer of the Commonplaces in the Speculative Poetics". This combined edition provides a sophisticated yet accessible discussion-- across generations-- of "the fundamental discourse of poetic structure". For students and teachers, for writers and readers, "The Sighted Singer" is a splendid introduction to both the tradition of poetry and its contemporary practice.

Author: Allen Grossman
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: 12/19/1991
Pages: 400
Weight: 1.35lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.06w x 1.06d
ISBN: 9780801842436
2nd Revised and Aug Edition