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Our Savage Art: Poetry and the Civil Tongue
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Our Savage Art: Poetry and the Civil Tongue Hardcover - 2009

by William Logan

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  • Title Our Savage Art: Poetry and the Civil Tongue
  • Author William Logan
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Condition Used - Good
  • Pages 368
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Columbia University Press, New York
  • Date 2009-04
  • Features Bibliography, Dust Cover, Index, Table of Contents
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 0231147325.G
  • ISBN 9780231147323 / 0231147325
  • Weight 1.4 lbs (0.64 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.1 x 6.1 x 1.3 in (23.11 x 15.49 x 3.30 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects American poetry - 20th century - History and, Criticism - United States - History - 20th
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2008036414
  • Dewey Decimal Code 811.509

From the publisher

Includes bibliographical references and index.

From the rear cover

Praise for The Undiscovered Country: Poetry in the Age of Tin

"Our wittiest critic of contemporary verse lets loose one lethal shaft after another."-James Marcus, Newsday

"Logan has firmly established himself as the pit bull of mainstream poetry reviewers."-Maureen N. McLane, Chicago Tribune

Praise for Desperate Measures

"When it comes to separating the serious from the fraudulent, the ambitious from the complacent, Logan has consistently shown us what is wheat and what is chaff.... The criticism we remember is neither savage nor mandarin.... There is no one in his generation more likely to write it than William Logan."-Adam Kirsch, Oxford American

Praise for William Logan

"Who's the Best Poetry Critic in America? His name I can mention. William Logan, who must be tired of being compared to Randall Jarrell, but such is one's fate when one writes as wickedly, knowledgeably, and uncompromisingly as he does."-James Wolcott

"Arguably the most industrious and notorious poet-critic to brandish that hyphen like a knife between his teeth since his acknowledged master Randall Jarrell.... He often comes off as nothing so much as the Dirty Harry of the poetry beat."-David Barber, The New York Times Book Review

"William Logan is the best practical critic around."-Christian Wiman, Poetry

"Is there today a more stringent, caring reader of American poetry than William Logan? Reputations of the Tongue may, at moments, read harshly. But this edge is one of deeply considered and concerned authority. A poet-critic engages closely with his masters, with his peers, with those whom he regards as falling short. This collection is an adventure of sensibility."-George Steiner

Media reviews

Citations

  • Choice, 09/01/2009, Page 0
  • New York Times Book Review, 04/26/2009, Page 12

About the author

William Logan is the author of nine volumes of poetry and five books of criticism, including The Undiscovered Country, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award in Criticism. He has received the Randall Jarrell Award in Poetry Criticism from the Poetry Foundation, as well as the Citation for Excellence in Reviewing from the National Book Critics Circle, the Corrington Medal for Literary Excellence, and numerous awards for his poetry. He teaches at the University of Florida.