
The Poetry Blues
Essays and Interviews
William Matthews(Author)
The University of Michigan Press
Will be published approx. on 25. June 2001
Book
Paperback/Softback
184 pages
978-0-472-06773-2 (ISBN)
Description
In the Poetry Blues, the late William Matthews holds forth on a medley of topics ranging from jazz to nude photography, Byron to Elizabeth Bishop, opera to Emerson. Throughout, Matthews writes about his love of music, language, poetry, and art while illuminating the subtle and important ways in which the things about which he feels passionately help to define and shape him.
The book begins with a candid autobiographical essay, followed by an interview on the influence of jazz music on the poet's early work. Further into the collection, Matthews delves into the nature of the epigram and the work of jazz great Charles Mingus. Along the way, this revered poet offers insight into the work of this contemporaries, including W. S. Merwin, Galway Kinnell, Hayden Carruth, and Richard Hugo.
the book is as much autobiography and cultural criticism as it is literary nonfiction. It will be of interest to writers and teachers of writing, as well as to lovers of literature, language and music.
Sebastian Matthews teaches writing at Warren Wilson College. Stanley Plumly is Distinguished University Professor, University of Maryland.
The book begins with a candid autobiographical essay, followed by an interview on the influence of jazz music on the poet's early work. Further into the collection, Matthews delves into the nature of the epigram and the work of jazz great Charles Mingus. Along the way, this revered poet offers insight into the work of this contemporaries, including W. S. Merwin, Galway Kinnell, Hayden Carruth, and Richard Hugo.
the book is as much autobiography and cultural criticism as it is literary nonfiction. It will be of interest to writers and teachers of writing, as well as to lovers of literature, language and music.
Sebastian Matthews teaches writing at Warren Wilson College. Stanley Plumly is Distinguished University Professor, University of Maryland.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Ann Arbor
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 203 mm
Width: 137 mm
ISBN-13
978-0-472-06773-2 (9780472067732)
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Content
Durations Instrumental Bones: Interview with Dave Johnson Poetry & Music Butterscotch Ripple Old Haunts Layered Vision A Note on Prose, Verse, and the Line The Poetry Blues Some Thoughts on The Book of Nightmares Merida, 1969 Awkward Bad Lines 100 Sentences The Soul of Brevity Sad Stories and & True Privacies People like Us The Precisions of Passion Photographs of Nude Women Miss Bishop Nurse Sharks Sentimental Villainy Hail, Muse! Et Cetera Journal Entries Mingus at the Showplace: Interview with Sascha Feinstein The Pleasure of Experience, the Experience of Pleasure: Interview with Peter Davison The Complaint The Poetry Blues