A commonplace book of pentastichs
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Author
Contributions
- Carruth, Hayden, 1921- - Contributor
Publication
1998 - New Directions Book, New York, New York (State)
Language
English
Word Count
23,500 words, Guess
Page Count
94 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL353309M
- ISBN-100811213862
- OCLC Control Number38485911
- OCLC Control Numbercommonplacebooko00laug
- Library of Congress Control Number98012968
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- Goodreads453848
Classifications
- DDC811/.54
- LCCPS3523.A8245 C66 1998
Description
James Laughlin (1914-97) was a poet of distinction as well as the founding publisher of New Directions. A Commonplace Book of Pentastichs, the last book of his own that he helped to prepare, is a compilation of 249 poems composed in a five-line stanza form first introduced in The Secret Room (1997). A note to "Thirty-nine Pentastichs" in that earlier volume explains: "A 'pentastich' refers simply to a poem of five lines, without regard to metrics. The present selection is of recent short-line compositions in natural voice cadence, many of them marginal jottings and paraphrases of commonplace book notations." Here, then, are armchair marginalia and apercus to be savored at random.
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