Letter to an Imaginary Friend
Poems
Will be published approx. on 1. January 2030
Book
Paperback/Softback
432 pages
978-1-83674-446-7 (ISBN)
Description
Thomas McGrath's masterwork was the labour of over three decades, and is widely considered a seminal piece of twentieth century American literature.
Letter to an American Friend is a narrative epic in four parts, both deeply personal and grandly ambitious. The poem takes in a whole continent and its people and history. McGrath merges the mythological and material in compelling and elegant lines that run visionary while remaining tactile and grounded.
Letter to an American Friend is a narrative epic in four parts, both deeply personal and grandly ambitious. The poem takes in a whole continent and its people and history. McGrath merges the mythological and material in compelling and elegant lines that run visionary while remaining tactile and grounded.
Reviews / Votes
A most accomplished and committed poet * New York Times Book Review * A tremendous odyssey of sense and spirit. * Library Journal * In American poetry he is as close to Whitman as anyone since Whitman himself * Terence Des Pres * One of the best American poets * New Republic * Has all the hallmarks of a masterpiece * Publishers Weekly * McGrath's poetry will be remembered in one hundred years when many more fashionable voices have been forgotten * E.P. Thompson *More details
Series
Edition
Paperback original
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 153 mm
ISBN-13
978-1-83674-446-7 (9781836744467)
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Person
Thomas McGrath was born on a North Dakota farm in 1916. He attended the University of North Dakota and Louisiana State University and was a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford University. During World War II he served in the Air Force, and he was blacklisted for his political convictions during the McCarthy era. He worked as a documentary film scriptwriter and was the founder and first editor of the literary magazine Crazyhorse. McGrath received fellowships from the Bush Foundation, the Guggenheim Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Arts, as well as a Shelley Memorial Award. He died in 1990.