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Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton Univ Press, 2010. -----The scan you see is the book you get. White boards with silver lettering, headband, x + 152 pages, Near Fine condition, dust jacket is in Near Fine condition with fold to inside front flap. "In Last Looks, Last Books, the eminent critic Helen Vendler examines the ways in which five great modern American poets, writing their final books, try to find a style that does justice to life and death alike." Contents include: Introduction: Last Looks, Last Books / Looking at the Worst: Wallace Stevens's "The Rock" / The Contest of Melodrama and Restraint: Sylvia Plath's "Ariel" / Images of Subtraction: Robert Lowell's "Day by Day" / Caught and Freed: Elizabeth Bishop and "Geography III" / Self-Portraits While Dying: James Merrill and "A Scattering of Salts" / Notes. Check out the scans. . First Edition First Printing. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Illus. by Front cover:…
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Last Looks, Last Books: Stevens, Plath, Lowell, Bishop, Merrill Hardcover - 2010
by Helen Vendler
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"Helen Vendler is one of the most lucid and incisive critics with which the art of poetry has been blessed, and this is one of her finest books--brilliant, moving, and a pleasure to read."--James Longenbach, University of Rochester
"This is an elegant, expressive, and often very poignant book. One can only admire Helen Vendler's skill in showing how these American poets confronted their own leave-taking."--Angus Fletcher, City University of New York
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- Title Last Looks, Last Books: Stevens, Plath, Lowell, Bishop, Merrill
- Author Helen Vendler
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition First Edition
- Pages 168
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ
- Date 2010-03-21
- Features Bibliography, Dust Cover, Table of Contents
- ISBN 9780691145341 / 0691145342
- Weight 0.7 lbs (0.32 kg)
- Dimensions 8.5 x 5.8 x 0.8 in (21.59 x 14.73 x 2.03 cm)
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- Chronological Period: 21st Century
- Library of Congress subjects Death in literature, American poetry - 20th century - History and
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2009039549
- Dewey Decimal Code 811.509
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- Choice, 02/01/2011, Page 0
- New York Times Book Review, 12/05/2010, Page 50
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