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A DRAFT OF LIGHT.
by Hollander, John
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New York:: Alfred A. Knopf,, 2008.. Hardcover first edition -. Very near fine in a like dustjacket (remainder dot.). First printing. A collection of poems which "explore the ways in which ordinary objects open doors to the more hidden, subconscious truths of our inner selves." 108 pp.
Synopsis
John Hollander is the author of eighteen previous books of poetry. His first, A Crackling of Thorns , was chosen by W. H. Auden as the 1958 volume in the Yale Series of Younger Poets. He has written eight books of criticism and edited The Laurel Ben Jonson; an anthology of contemporary poetry, Poems of Our Moment; and, with Harold Bloom, The Wind and the Rain , an anthology of verse for young people. He was a coeditor of The Oxford Anthology of English Literature and is the editor (with Anthony Hecht, with whom he shared the Bollingen Prize in Poetry in 1983) of Jiggery-Pokery: A Compendium of Double Dactyls . Mr. Hollander attended Columbia and Indiana universities, was a junior fellow at the Society of Fellows of Harvard University, and in 1990 was made a fellow of the MacArthur Foundation. He taught at Connecticut College and Yale, and was professor of English at Hunter College and the Graduate Center, CUNY. He is currently Sterling Professor Emeritus of English at Yale.
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- Title
- A DRAFT OF LIGHT.
- Author
- Hollander, John
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover first edition -
- Book Condition
- Used - Very near fine in a like dustjacket (remainder dot.)
- Jacket Condition
- like
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Alfred A. Knopf,
- Place of Publication
- New York:
- Date Published
- 2008.
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- Poetry;
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