The Poetry Blues: Essays and Interviews

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University of Michigan Press, 2001 - 168 sivua
In the Poetry Blues, the late William Matthews holds forth on a medley of topics ranging from jazz to nude photography, Byron to Elizabeth Bishop, opera to Emerson. Throughout, Matthews writes about his love of music, language, poetry, and art while illuminating the subtle and important ways in which the things about which he feels passionately help to define and shape him.
The book begins with a candid autobiographical essay, followed by an interview on the influence of jazz music on the poet's early work. Further into the collection, Matthews delves into the nature of the epigram and the work of jazz great Charles Mingus. Along the way, this revered poet offers insight into the work of this contemporaries, including W. S. Merwin, Galway Kinnell, Hayden Carruth, and Richard Hugo.
the book is as much autobiography and cultural criticism as it is literary nonfiction. It will be of interest to writers and teachers of writing, as well as to lovers of literature, language and music.
Sebastian Matthews teaches writing at Warren Wilson College. Stanley Plumly is Distinguished University Professor, University of Maryland.

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Sebastian Matthews teaches writing at Warren Wilson College. Stanley Ross Plumly was born in Barnesville, Ohio on May 23, 1939. He received a bachelor's degree from Wilmington College in Ohio in 1961 and a master's degree from Ohio University in 1968. He taught at the University of Iowa, Princeton University, Columbia University, and the University of Houston before coming to the University of Maryland in 1985. He founded the graduate program in creative writing there before retiring 2018. His first collection of poetry, In the Outer Dark, was published 1970. His collections of poetry included Now That My Father Lies Down Beside Me: New and Selected Poems 1970-2000, Orphan Hours, Against Sunset, and Old Heart: Poems. He was Maryland's poet laureate from 2009 to 2018. He edited the Ohio Review and the Iowa Review and several anthologies of poetry. He also wrote nonfiction books including Posthumous Keats, The Immortal Evening, and Elegy Landscapes: Constable and Turner and the Intimate Sublime. He died of complications from multiple myeloma on April 11, 2019 at the age of 79.

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OtsikkoThe Poetry Blues: Essays and Interviews
Poets on poetry
The Poetry Blues: Essays and Interviews, Sebastian Matthews
KirjoittajaWilliam Matthews
ToimittajatSebastian Matthews, Stanley Plumly
Painoskuvitettu
KustantajaUniversity of Michigan Press, 2001
ISBN0472067737, 9780472067732
Pituus168 sivua
  
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