Description
Next, Disch offers an essay on epic verse that juxtaposes such canonical giants as Homer and Virgil with the likes of Michael Lind and some war-inspired American novelists, including John Dos Passos, Ernest Hemingway, and Norman Mailer. He uses Harold Bloom's concept of ""the anxiety of influence"" as well as the ideas of the poetical voice to segue into a discussion on twentieth-century poet John Ciardi's progression from the ""Capitalist of the Po-Biz"" in his early career to ""the Polonius of American poetry.""
The essay ""Job Opportunities in Contemporary Poetry"" is a scathing and witty critique of the poet as professional. Disch argues that the notion that one can subsist on one's poetry alone while escaping to the Caribbean for vacations and retreats is ""grasshopperism at its most presumptuous."" All in all, Disch dishes out a sumptuous platter of poems and prose that are certain to satisfy.
Thomas Disch is a popular and prolific poet, playwright, essayist, and novelist. He is the author of many works of science fiction and the poetry collections Dark Verses and Light and Yes, Let's: New and Selected Poems.
Book Information
ISBN 9780472067503
Author Thomas M. Disch
Format Paperback
Page Count 200
Imprint The University of Michigan Press
Publisher The University of Michigan Press
Weight(grams) 300g