The Sighted Singer makes available a revised and significantlyexpanded version of Against Our Vanishing and includes Grossman's recent treatise - Summa Lyrica: A Primer of the Commonplaces in Speculative Poetry.- This combined edition provides a sophisticated yet accessible discussion--across generations--of -the fundamental discourse of poetic structure.-
The Sighted Singer makes available a revised and significantlyexpanded version of Against Our Vanishing and includes Grossman's rece...
'A book of poems should have exactly the same fullness and risk and lay itself open to the same judgment as a life, ' says Allen Grossman. Of the Great House, which includes sections of 'A Harlot's Hire' (1961), Grossman's first published book, as well as his most recent poetry, presents an anatomy of the poet's working life.
'A book of poems should have exactly the same fullness and risk and lay itself open to the same judgment as a life, ' says Allen Grossman. Of the Grea...
"True-Love "is the fulfillment of revered poet-critic Allen Grossman s long service to poetry in the interests of humanity. Poetry s singular mission is to bind love and truth together love that desires the beloved s continued life, knotted with the truth of life s contingency to help make us more present to each other.
In the spirit of Blake s vow of mental fight, Grossman contends with challenges to the validity of the poetic imagination, from Adorno s maxim No poetry after Auschwitz, to the claims of religious authority upon truth, and the ultimate challenge posed by the fact of death...
"True-Love "is the fulfillment of revered poet-critic Allen Grossman s long service to poetry in the interests of humanity. Poetry s singular missi...
