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Richard Howard Paper Trail: Selected Prose, 1965-2003
Farrar Straus Giroux 2004-10 0374258856 / 9780374258856 Hardcover Near fine Near fine Hardcover
New. Remainder mark. Near fine in publisher's quarter bound boards in like dust jacket. Available in our UK premises for prompt dispatch worldwide.Howard is a formidable man of letters: a brilliant poet, pioneering translator, revered champion of emerging poets, and learned, far-ranging critic. In this dazzling essay collection, a true landmark volume, Howard exemplifies the benefits of the life of the mind, which for him is a veritable fountain of youth. Over the course of nearly four decades, he has never lost the intellectual vivaciousness of his earlier works even as experience and growing knowledge have deepened his perspective. Howard writes with equal zest and insight about the minutiae of grammar and the grandness of worldviews, the eccentricities of writers and the great sweep of literature. Naturally, given his style and taste, he dissects Henry James and Marianne Moore, but he has also penned clarion and seminal essays on diverse contemporary poets. His meditations on French literature include keen discussions of Gide, Yourcenar, and Proust, and he evinces a sharp eye for the art of the nude in essays on Rodin and Mapplethorpe. Drolly witty, discerning, and wielding a vocabulary and syntax to die for, Howard makes each of his chosen subjects worthy of the reader's most avid attention. Donna Seaman Copyright
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