Publication

1998 - New Directions, New York, New York (State)

Language

English

Word Count

73,250 words, Guess

Page Count

293 pages

Identifiers

and 2 more
  • LibraryThing153518
  • Goodreads2618432

Classifications

  • DDC811/.54
  • LCCPS3523.A8245 A6 1998

Description

The poetry of the late James Laughlin (1914-97) spans a period of over sixty years, from the first verses written in his signature "typewriter" metric to the most recent pieces that open his Poems New and Selected. Laughlin reveals himself in his poems as a master of concision, of the well-placed word that penetrates the human heart. Over two hundred and twenty five poems included here show his technical brilliance as well: in short- and long-line poems; in the three-stress verses of his autobiographical "Byways"; in "Epigrams," amatory and otherwise, and "Pentastichs"; in idiosyncratic "(American) French" poems and their translations of his own devising.

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