What the Poem Wants: Prose on Poetry

Pittsburgh: Carnegie Mellon University Press, 2009.

Price: $500.00

Softcover. First edition. 165pp. Pictorial, glossy wrappers. Fine. Signed by the author on the title page as well as affectionately Inscribed to fellow author Nicholas Delbanco by the author on the half-title page. Laid in is the author's self-addressed card with a handwritten note to Nicholas and his wife Elena. The author's fifteen essays on his love affair with poetry and how an author writes with some examples of John Berryman, D.H. Lawrence, and James Wright as well as other authors he has admired through the years. Scarce association copy.

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ISBN: 9780887485121

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Item #417636 What the Poem Wants: Prose on Poetry. Michael Dennis BROWNE.
What the Poem Wants: Prose on Poetry
What the Poem Wants: Prose on Poetry
What the Poem Wants: Prose on Poetry
What the Poem Wants: Prose on Poetry