Twenty questions : (Record no. 485)

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020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 9780231111720
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International Standard Book Number 023111172X
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System control number (KOHALIB)isbn-9780231111720
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Language of cataloging eng
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082 04 - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER
Classification number 811.54
Edition information 23
100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name McClatchy, J. D.
245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT
Title Twenty questions :
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Statement of responsibility, etc. J. D. McClatchy.
264 #1 - PRODUCTION, PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, MANUFACTURE, AND COPYRIGHT NOTICE
Place of production, publication, distribution, manufacture New York :
Name of producer, publisher, distributor, manufacturer Columbia University Press,
Date of production, publication, distribution, manufacture, or copyright notice 1998.
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Extent 200 pages
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Summary, etc. In Twenty Questions, one of America's finest poet-critics leads readers into the mysteries of poetry: how it draws on our lives, and how it leads us back into them. In a series of linked essays progressing from the autobiographical to the critical - and closing with a remarkable translation of Horace's Ars Poetica unavailable elsewhere - J. D. McClatchy's latest book offers an intimate and illuminating look into the poetic mind. McClatchy begins with a portrait of his development as a poet, and provides vibrant details about some of those who helped shape his sensibility - from Anne Sexton in her final days, to Harold Bloom, his enigmatic teacher at Yale, to James Merrill, a wise and witty mentor. All of these glimpses into McClatchy's personal history enhance our understanding of a coming of age from ingenuous reader to accomplished poet-critic. Later sections range through poetry past and present - from Emily Dickinson to Seamus Heaney and W. S. Merwin - with incisive criticism generously interspersed with vivid anecdotes about McClatchy's encounters with other poets' lives and work. A critical unpacking of Alexander Pope's "Epistle to Miss Blount," for instance, is interwoven with a compassionate psychological portrait of a brilliant poet plagued by both romantic longings and debilitating physical deformities.
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Topical term or geographic name entry element Poetry
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Topical term or geographic name entry element Poetry (Poetic Works by One Author)
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    Dewey Decimal Classification     Poetry Main Library Main Library 10/16/2026   811.54 MCC LIB01928 10/16/2026 10/16/2026 Book