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020			_a9780231111720
020			_a023111172X
035			_a(KOHALIB)isbn-9780231111720
040			_aKOHALIB _beng _erda _cKOHALIB
082	0	4	_a811.54 _223
100	1		_aMcClatchy, J. D.
245	1	0	_aTwenty questions : _b(posed by poems) / _cJ. D. McClatchy.
264		1	_aNew York : _bColumbia University Press, _c1998.
300			_a200 pages
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
520			_aIn 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.
590			_aInventory: Single copy, entry 497; recorded quantity 1; damaged N/A
650		4	_aAuthorship
650		4	_aPoetry
650		4	_aLyrik
650		4	_aAufsatzsammlung
650		4	_aPoetry (Poetic Works by One Author)
942			_cBOOK _2ddc
999			_c485 _d485