James Agee: Selected Poems
(American Poets Project #27)
$34.67
- Hardcover
200 pages
- Release Date
2 October 2008
Summary
Better known for writing in a variety of other genres, James Agee always thought of himself as essentially a poet. Winner of the Yale Younger Poets competition in 1934 for Permit Me Voyage, Agee was, in the words of editor Andrew Hudgins, “as restless in his poetry as he was later in his prose, exhibiting a variety … that we expect from the protean mind that excelled in so many different kinds of writing.” Ranging from intense religious sonnets to lyrics for musical comedy, Agee’s ve…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781598530322 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1598530321 |
| Author: | James Agee, Andrew Hudgins |
| Publisher: | The Library of America |
| Imprint: | The Library of America |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 200 |
| Release Date: | 2 October 2008 |
| Weight: | 272g |
| Dimensions: | 16mm x 120mm x 197mm |
| Series: | American Poets Project |
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James Agee
Andrew Hudgins is Humanities Distinguished Professor in English at The Ohio State University. His volumes of poetry include American Rendering: New and Selected Poems (2010), Ecstatic in the Poison (2003); Babylon in a Jar (1998); The Glass Hammer: A Southern Childhood (1994); The Never-Ending: New Poems (1991), a finalist for the National Book Award; After the Lost War: A Narrative (1988), which received the Poetry Prize; and Saints and Strangers (1985), a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. He is also the author of a book of essays, The Glass Anvil (1997).
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