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Figurehead: And Other Poems Paperback - 2000 - 1st Edition
by John Hollander
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In a major review in "The New Republic of John Hollander's two earlier books, Tesserae and Selected Poetry (both 1993), Vernon Shetley said, "John Hollander's poetry has shown a visionary power just often enough to secure him a place as one of the major figures of our moment."
Figurehead, a lively, varied, and technically dazzling book, confirms the statement made by Henry Taylor in the "Washington Times: "John Hollander revels in technical challenges of unusual severity and complexity, yet most of his poems also have the emotional heft of something worth pausing over and remembering."
One of the most gifted of W. H. Auden's choices for the Yale Series of Younger Poets, Hollander has pursued the wide range and metrical brilliance of Auden's own poetry, so that this new book exhibits both a large compass of subject matter (from philosophical matters to personal narrative) and, as usual, some astonishing meditations on paintings--here, by Charles Sheeler, Rene Magritte, and Edward Hopper. By turns witty, touching, profound, mocking, ingenious, and always clever, Hollander's poems are a joy for the reader.
He is a modern master.
Figurehead, a lively, varied, and technically dazzling book, confirms the statement made by Henry Taylor in the "Washington Times: "John Hollander revels in technical challenges of unusual severity and complexity, yet most of his poems also have the emotional heft of something worth pausing over and remembering."
One of the most gifted of W. H. Auden's choices for the Yale Series of Younger Poets, Hollander has pursued the wide range and metrical brilliance of Auden's own poetry, so that this new book exhibits both a large compass of subject matter (from philosophical matters to personal narrative) and, as usual, some astonishing meditations on paintings--here, by Charles Sheeler, Rene Magritte, and Edward Hopper. By turns witty, touching, profound, mocking, ingenious, and always clever, Hollander's poems are a joy for the reader.
He is a modern master.
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- Title Figurehead: And Other Poems
- Author John Hollander
- Binding Paperback
- Edition number 1st
- Edition 1
- Pages 96
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Knopf Publishing Group, New York
- Date 2000-08-15
- Illustrated Yes
- Features Illustrated
- ISBN 9780375704338 / 0375704337
- Weight 0.45 lbs (0.20 kg)
- Dimensions 9.23 x 6.13 x 0.42 in (23.44 x 15.57 x 1.07 cm)
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 98014208
- Dewey Decimal Code 811.54
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