Charles Reznikoff

Selected Letters of Charles Reznikoff: 1917-1976

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This landmark volume of correspondence by the great Objectivist poet Charles Reznikoff (1894-1976) sheds light on the difficulties of a dedicated artist trying to keep afloat in a materialistic society, and on the relation of poetry to a wider culture during the turbulent decades of the twentieth century. Most of the letters here date from the 1920s and 30s, when the young Reznikoff, an NYU law school graduate employed sporadically as editor of legal encyclopedias and as a travelling salesman for his parents' millinery business, devotes his heart and soul to his writing -- turning out poems, plays, short stories and novels which, for want of… Mehr

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Produktdetails

Weitere Autoren: Hindus, Milton (Hrsg.)

ISBN: 978-1-57423-034-5
EAN: 9781574230345
Produktnummer: 33656169
Verlag: Black Sparrow Pr
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 1997
Seitenangabe: 340 S.
Masse: H23.0 cm x B15.0 cm x D2.7 cm 535 g
Auflage: New
Gewicht: 535

Über den Autor

Charles Reznikoff, the son of Russian garment workers, was a blood-and-bone New Yorker; a collector of images and stories who walked the city from the Bronx to the Battery and breathed its soul into a lifetime of poetry.