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The instant of knowing : lectures, criticism, and occasional prose
- Title
- The instant of knowing : lectures, criticism, and occasional prose / edited by Elizabeth Spires.
- Author
- Jacobsen, Josephine.
- Publication
- Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, [1997], ©1997.
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- Additional Authors
- Spires, Elizabeth.
- Description
- viii, 208 pages; 21 cm.
- Summary
- The Instant of Knowing: Lectures, Criticism, and Occasional Prose joins recent collections of Jacobsen's poetry and short stories, bringing together for the first time the highlights of this distinguished poet's long and varied career as a literary critic, lecturer, and reviewer.
- Series Statement
- Poets on poetry
- Uniform Title
- Works. Selections. 1997
- Poets on poetry.
- Alternative Title
- Works. 1997
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Contents
- Introduction / Elizabeth Spires -- I. Memoir and Lectures. Statement on Poetry. Lion under Maples. From Anne to Marianne: Some Women in American Poetry. The Instant of Knowing. One Poet's Poetry. The Admiring Bog -- II. Reviews and Criticism. Frost, Cummings, Williams: Legacy of Three Poets. Poet of the Particular. History as Death. Corsons Inlet. Stories and "Texts" by Samuel Beckett. The Felicity of J. D. Salinger -- III. Travel and Op-Ed Pieces. Atlantic City Glowed like a Jewel. Never Was the Play the Thing. Happily in Transit, Transported. A Kind of Beginning. The Meaning of Arrival. Where the Wild Went About. The Swamp's Talk. More White than Feathers. The Traveler. The Handless Clock. Why You Not Say Good Morning? Openness, a Vast Confusion. Breaking Bread Together. International Aspects of the Mad Hatter. Mayed and Traught on a Desert Island. To Our Waiting Names. Artifacts of Memory. Time Out of Mind. A Generous Disorder. Trees. A Day of One's Own --
- IV. An Interview and Four Poems. The Sisters. A Conversation with Her Sister. Voyage. Program. Piazza di Spagna.
- ISBN
- 0472096605 (cloth : acid-free paper)
- 0472066609 (paper)
- LCCN
- 97027974
- OCLC
- ocm37269498
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries