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Desperate Measures

by William Logan ...

Narrated by Walter Dixon ...

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12 hours 41 min

William Logan has been called "the most hated man in American poetry" and the most dangerous poetry critic since Randall Jarrell. Desperate Measures continues the critical fevers of Reputations of the Tongue (UPF, 1999), a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle award in criticism. Beginning with an exploration of some of Robert Frost's least-known poems, these essays consider Ezra Pound's ... Read more

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William Logan has been called "the most hated man in American poetry" and the most dangerous poetry critic since Randall Jarrell. Desperate Measures continues the critical fevers of Reputations of the Tongue (UPF, 1999), a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle award in criticism. Beginning with an exploration of some of Robert Frost's least-known poems, these essays consider Ezra Pound's
... Read more
Broken Ground

Poetry and the Demon of History

by William Logan ...

In Broken Ground, William Logan explores the works of canonical and contemporary poets, rediscovering the lushness of imagination and depth of feeling that distinguish poetry as a literary art. The book includes long essays on Emily Dickinson’s envelopes, Ezra Pound’s wrestling with Chinese, Robert Frost’s letters, Philip Larkin’s train station, and Mrs. Custer’s volume of Tennyson, each teasing ... Read more

$25.99 USD

In Broken Ground, William Logan explores the works of canonical and contemporary poets, rediscovering the lushness of imagination and depth of feeling that distinguish poetry as a literary art. The book includes long essays on Emily Dickinson’s envelopes, Ezra Pound’s wrestling with Chinese, Robert Frost’s letters, Philip Larkin’s train station, and Mrs. Custer’s volume of Tennyson, each teasing
... Read more
Rift of Light

by William Logan ...

Series series Penguin Poets
New work from a poet who "seems to be getting stronger with each collection" (David Yezzi, The New Criterion)William Logan is widely admired as one of our foremost masters of free verse as well as formal poetry; his classical verve conjures up the past within the present and the foreshadowings of the present within the past. In their sculptural turns, their pleasure in the glimmerings of the ... Read more

$13.99 USD

New work from a poet who "seems to be getting stronger with each collection" (David Yezzi, The New Criterion)William Logan is widely admired as one of our foremost masters of free verse as well as formal poetry; his classical verve conjures up the past within the present and the foreshadowings of the present within the past. In their sculptural turns, their pleasure in the glimmerings of the
... Read more
Broken Ground

Poetry and the Demon of History

by William Logan ...

In Broken Ground, William Logan explores the works of canonical and contemporary poets, rediscovering the lushness of imagination and depth of feeling that distinguish poetry as a literary art. The book includes long essays on Emily Dickinson’s envelopes, Ezra Pound’s wrestling with Chinese, Robert Frost’s letters, Philip Larkin’s train station, and Mrs. Custer’s volume of Tennyson, each teasing ... Read more

$31.99 USD

In Broken Ground, William Logan explores the works of canonical and contemporary poets, rediscovering the lushness of imagination and depth of feeling that distinguish poetry as a literary art. The book includes long essays on Emily Dickinson’s envelopes, Ezra Pound’s wrestling with Chinese, Robert Frost’s letters, Philip Larkin’s train station, and Mrs. Custer’s volume of Tennyson, each teasing
... Read more
Guilty Knowledge, Guilty Pleasure

The Dirty Art of Poetry

by William Logan ...

William Logan has been a thorn in the side of American poetry for more than three decades. Though he has been called the "most hated man in American poetry," his witty and articulate reviews have reminded us how muscular good reviewing can be. These new essays and reviews take poetry at its word, often finding in its hardest cases the greatest reasons for hope. Logan begins with a devastating ... Read more

$49.99 USD

William Logan has been a thorn in the side of American poetry for more than three decades. Though he has been called the "most hated man in American poetry," his witty and articulate reviews have reminded us how muscular good reviewing can be. These new essays and reviews take poetry at its word, often finding in its hardest cases the greatest reasons for hope. Logan begins with a devastating
... Read more
Dickinson's Nerves, Frost's Woods

Poetry in the Shadow of the Past

by William Logan ...

In Dickinson’s Nerves, Frost’s Woods, William Logan, the noted and often controversial critic of contemporary poetry, returns to some of the greatest poems in English literature. He reveals what we may not have seen before and what his critical eye can do with what he loves. In essays that pair different poems—“Ozymandias,” “On First Looking Into Chapman’s Homer,” “In a Station of the Metro,” “The ... Read more

$23.99 USD

In Dickinson’s Nerves, Frost’s Woods, William Logan, the noted and often controversial critic of contemporary poetry, returns to some of the greatest poems in English literature. He reveals what we may not have seen before and what his critical eye can do with what he loves. In essays that pair different poems—“Ozymandias,” “On First Looking Into Chapman’s Homer,” “In a Station of the Metro,” “The
... Read more
Dickinson's Nerves, Frost's Woods

Poetry in the Shadow of the Past

by William Logan ...

In Dickinson’s Nerves, Frost’s Woods, William Logan, the noted and often controversial critic of contemporary poetry, returns to some of the greatest poems in English literature. He reveals what we may not have seen before and what his critical eye can do with what he loves. In essays that pair different poems—“Ozymandias,” “On First Looking Into Chapman’s Homer,” “In a Station of the Metro,” “The ... Read more

$28.99 USD

In Dickinson’s Nerves, Frost’s Woods, William Logan, the noted and often controversial critic of contemporary poetry, returns to some of the greatest poems in English literature. He reveals what we may not have seen before and what his critical eye can do with what he loves. In essays that pair different poems—“Ozymandias,” “On First Looking Into Chapman’s Homer,” “In a Station of the Metro,” “The
... Read more
Our Savage Art

Poetry and the Civil Tongue

by William Logan ...

The most notorious poet-critic of his generation, William Logan has defined our view of poets good and bad, interesting and banal, for more than three decades. Featured in the New York Times Book Review, the Times Literary Supplement, and the New Criterion, among other journals, Logan's eloquent, passionate prose never fails to provoke readers and poets, reminding us of the value and vitality of ... Read more

$28.99 USD

The most notorious poet-critic of his generation, William Logan has defined our view of poets good and bad, interesting and banal, for more than three decades. Featured in the New York Times Book Review, the Times Literary Supplement, and the New Criterion, among other journals, Logan's eloquent, passionate prose never fails to provoke readers and poets, reminding us of the value and vitality of
... Read more
The Undiscovered Country

Poetry in the Age of Tin

by William Logan ...

William Logan has been called both the "preeminent poet-critic of his generation" and the "most hated man in American poetry." For more than a quarter century, in the keen-witted and bare-knuckled reviews that have graced the New York Times Book Review, the Times Literary Supplement (London), and other journals, William Logan has delivered razor-sharp assessments of poets present and past. Logan, ... Read more

$31.99 USD

William Logan has been called both the "preeminent poet-critic of his generation" and the "most hated man in American poetry." For more than a quarter century, in the keen-witted and bare-knuckled reviews that have graced the New York Times Book Review, the Times Literary Supplement (London), and other journals, William Logan has delivered razor-sharp assessments of poets present and past. Logan,
... Read more
Fantastic Stories Presents the Fantastic Universe Super Pack #2

by Harry Harrison, Marion Zimmer Bradley, Carl Jacobi, H. Beam Piper, Alan E. Nourse, Andre Norton, Henry Kuttner, Poul Anderson, Frank Belknap Long, Evelyn E. Smith, John Victor Peterson, Irving E. Cox, Jr., Richard R. Smith, Jacques Jean Ferrat, George H. Smith, Forrest J. Ackerman, Walt Sheldon, Robert F. Young, Robert J. Shea, Richard E. Lowe, M. A. Cummings, William Logan, Eando Binder, Charles E. Fritch, William Gerken, David C. Knight, Robert Abernathy ...

Series Book 25 - Positronic Super Pack Series
Fantastic Universe' started publishing in 1953 and continued until March 1960. It was one of the better magazines to launch during the boom in science fiction magazine publishing. It published many important stories' by some of the field's best known writers. This is our second Fantastic Universe Super Pack. Collected in this oversized edition are more than 100,000 words of science fiction and ... Read more

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Fantastic Universe' started publishing in 1953 and continued until March 1960. It was one of the better magazines to launch during the boom in science fiction magazine publishing. It published many important stories' by some of the field's best known writers. This is our second Fantastic Universe Super Pack. Collected in this oversized edition are more than 100,000 words of science fiction and
... Read more
Ploughshares Winter 2015-2016 Volume 41 No. 4

by Lisa Fetchko, Laurie Baker, Piyali Bhattacharya, Lawrence-Minh Bui Davis, Meng Jin, Joan Murray, Lisa Julin Sharon, Ryan Ruff Smith, Jerry Whitus, Alison Wisdom, George Bilgere, Graham Foust, Julian Gewirtz, Adam Giannelli, Janice N. Harrington, Richie Hofmann, Liam Hysjulien, Christopher Kempf, Michael Klein, Jennifer L. Knox, Kien Lam, Kent Leatham, J. T. Ledbetter, Matthew Lippman, William Logan, Joseph Millar, John Mullen, Megan Peak, Anzhelina Polonskaya, Corey Quinn, Dean Rader, Jacques Rancourt, Cat Richardson, Stephanie Rogers, Tomaz Salamun, Natalie Shapero, Julie Sheehan, Sandra Simonds, Austin Smith, M.G. Stephens, Tim Suermondt, Mark Turpin, Marc Vincenz, Monica Wendel, Jason Whitmarsh, Emily Strasser, Lucy Tan, Emily Jungmin Yun ...

The Winter 2015-16 issue of Ploughshares. Ploughshares is an award-winning journal of new writing. Two out of each year's three issues are guest-edited by prominent writers who explore different personal visions, aesthetics, and literary circles, with the Winter issue staff-edited.The stories, poems, and essays that comprise this staff-edited issue of Ploughshares are diverse and timely. Visit a ... Read more

$6.99 USD

The Winter 2015-16 issue of Ploughshares. Ploughshares is an award-winning journal of new writing. Two out of each year's three issues are guest-edited by prominent writers who explore different personal visions, aesthetics, and literary circles, with the Winter issue staff-edited.The stories, poems, and essays that comprise this staff-edited issue of Ploughshares are diverse and timely. Visit a
... Read more
Vientiane

Transformations of a Lao landscape

by Marc Askew, Colin Long, William Logan ...

Series series Routledge Studies in Asia's Transformations
Providing insights into this neglected Southeast Asian city, this interesting book interprets Vientiane’s landscape - physical as well as imagined - as a reflection of key aspects of Lao geo-political history, the nature of Lao urbanism, and its critical relation to constructions of Lao identity in the contemporary period. It is argued that the patterns of change seen through Vientiane’s past ... Read more

$68.99 USD

Providing insights into this neglected Southeast Asian city, this interesting book interprets Vientiane’s landscape - physical as well as imagined - as a reflection of key aspects of Lao geo-political history, the nature of Lao urbanism, and its critical relation to constructions of Lao identity in the contemporary period. It is argued that the patterns of change seen through Vientiane’s past
... Read more

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