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Allen Grossman

The Philosopher's Window & Other Poems

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The speaker of The Philosopher's Window and Other Poems, Allen Grossman tells us, is an old man compelled by the insistent questioning of the children to explain himself-and in this way, the world. He begins with creation (The Great Work Farm Elegy), recalls the romantic quest of youth (The Philosopher's Window), returns to reality (The Snowfall and Whoever Builds). His tales told, the old man wakes in a stormy springtime (June, June), when the lilacs are gone. Grossman's allegory of life's journey, at once sonorous and antic, takes in the high and the low in these new visionary songs of innocence and experience.Allen Grossman is Andrew W. Me… Mehr

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  • ISBN: 978-0-8112-1300-4
  • EAN: 9780811213004
  • Produktnummer: 9403047
  • Verlag: New Directions
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 1995
  • Seitenangabe: 98 S.
  • Masse: H23.0 cm x B15.3 cm x D1.0 cm 168 g
  • Gewicht: 168

Über den Autor


Allen Grossman was born in 1932 in Minneapolis, Minnesota. His awards and honors include a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Witter Brynner Prize for Poetry, and a MacArthur Fellowship. He was professor of English at Brandeis University and the Andrew W. Mellon Professor of the Humanities at the Johns Hopkins University.

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