Talking Together
Letters of David Ignatow, 1946-1990
Published on 30. May 2006
Book
Paperback/Softback
280 pages
978-0-8173-5373-5 (ISBN)
Description
"This valuable collection tells us a great deal about the life and work of David Ignatow.... These letters reveal Ignatow converting his dreams and sorrows into poetry and his life into a much broader condition." - Small Press "[Offers] a wealth of new and often significant information.... An important addition to the body of Ignatow's work, one that reveals a poet devoted to his fellow writers and to an art that must have seemed to him an obscure, futile desire at times. Ultimately the measure of a collection like this is whether or not it sends its readers back to the poetry. Time and time again Talking Together does just this." - South Atlantic Quarterly "The U.S. Postal Service should issue a stamp to commemorate Ignatow, for no man, whether poet or politician, has used the mail with such diligence and dedication.... Talking Together is candid, revealing, opinionated, and sensitive." - Ohioana Quarterly"
Reviews / Votes
This valuable collection tells us a great deal about the life and work of David Ignatow.... These letters reveal Ignatow converting his dreams and sorrows into poetry and his life into a much broader condition. - Small Press ""[Offers] a wealth of new and often significant information.... An important addition to the body of Ignatow's work, one that reveals a poet devoted to his fellow writers and to an art that must have seemed to him an obscure, futile desire at times. Ultimately the measure of a collection like this is whether or not it sends its readers back to the poetry. Time and time again Talking Together does just this."" - South Atlantic Quarterly ""The U.S. Postal Service should issue a stamp to commemorate Ignatow, for no man, whether poet or politician, has used the mail with such diligence and dedication.... Talking Together is candid, revealing, opinionated, and sensitive."" - Ohioana QuarterlyMore details
Language
English
Place of publication
Alabama
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 228 mm
Width: 154 mm
Thickness: 20 mm
Weight
417 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-8173-5373-5 (9780817353735)
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Persons
David Ignatow (1914-1997) is remembered as a poet who wrote popular verse about the common man and the issues encountered in daily life. In all, he wrote or edited more than 25 books and was the recipient of numerous awards, including the Poetry Society of America's Shelley Memorial Prize and Robert Frost Medal, the Bollingen Prize, and the John Steinbeck Award. Gary Pacernickis Professor Emeritus of English, Wright State University, and the author of Memory and Fire: Ten American Jewish Poet; Sing a New Song: American Jewish Poetry since the Holocaust; and The Jewish Poems.