Corrupted into Song: The Complete Poems of Alvin Feinman
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Corrupted into Song: The Complete Poems of Alvin Feinman
By (Author) Alvin Feinman
Edited by Deborah Dorfman
Preface by Harold Bloom
Introduction by James Geary
Princeton University Press
Princeton University Press
13th September 2016
United States
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General
Non Fiction
811.54
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Paperback
168
Width 152mm, Height 235mm
255g
Description
According to Harold Bloom, "The best of Alvin Feinman's poetry is as good as anything by a twentieth-century American. His work achieves the greatness of the American sublime." Yet, in part because he published so sparsely, Feinman remained little-read and largely unknown when he died in 2008. This definitive edition of Feinman's complete work, whi
Reviews
"These poems do have a strong center, which springs from the speaker's intelligence, his measured rhythms and use of rhyme, and his sometimes detached outlook as he examines the world around him... Feinman's work deserves a broader audience."--Elizabeth Lund, Washington Post "A riveting collection by a poet who deserves to be better known."-- Carol Rumens, The Guardian
Author Bio
Alvin Feinman (1929-2008) taught literature at Bennington College from 1969 to 1994. He was the author of Preambles and Other Poems and an expanded edition of that work, Poems (Princeton). He was born in Brooklyn, New York, and educated at Brooklyn College, the University of Chicago, and Yale University. Feinman's wife, Deborah Dorfman (1934-2015), taught literature at Temple University, Wesleyan University, and SUNY Albany. Harold Bloom is Sterling Professor of the Humanities and English at Yale University. James Geary is deputy curator of the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard University and the author, most recently, of I Is an Other: The Secret Life of Metaphor and How It Shapes the Way We See the World.
