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  • Audiobook

    Desperate Measures

    by William Logan ...
    Narrated by Walter Dixon ...

    Unabridged

    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

    $20.00 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • 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

    $23.09 USD

  • 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

    $28.79 USD

  • 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

    $49.49 USD

  • 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

    $25.19 USD

  • 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

  • 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

    $31.49 USD

  • 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

    $31.49 USD

  • 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

    $28.79 USD

  • Dirt

    The Ecstatic Skin of the Earth

    "A gleeful, poetic book…Like the best natural histories, Dirt is a kind of prayer." —Los Angeles Times Book Review"You are about to read a lot about dirt, which no one knows very much about." So begins the cult classic that brings mystery and magic to "that stuff that won't come off your collar."John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, Saint Phocas, Darwin, and Virgil parade through this thought-provoking ... Read more

    $12.49 USD

  • Air

    The Restless Shaper of the World

    In a sublime exploration of the most unpredictable element of the earth, William Bryant Logan opens our eyes to the astonishing physics, chemistry, biology, history, art, and even music of the air.Air sustains the living. Every creature breathes to live, exchanging and changing the atmosphere. Water and dust spin and rise, make clouds and fall again, fertilizing the dirt. Twenty thousand fungal ... Read more

    $12.39 USD

  • Sprout Lands

    Tending the Endless Gift of Trees

    **Winner of the 2021 John Burroughs Medal for Distinguished Natural History Writing"This deeply nourishing book invites us to reclaim reciprocity with the living world." —Robin Wall Kimmerer, author of Braiding Sweetgrass**Once, farmers and rural people knew how to prune hazel to foster abundance: both of edible nuts and of straight, strong, flexible rods for bridges, walls, and baskets. ... Read more

    $12.29 USD