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Picture Window (Inscribed to a Fellow Poet)
by Hollander, John
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- Near Fine
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/very good
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Avon, Connecticut, United States
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Synopsis
John Hollander is the author of seventeen 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, including the award-winning Rhyme’s Reason: A Guide to English Verse and The Work of Poetry , and edited or coedited twenty-two collections, among them The Oxford Anthology of English Literature , American Poetry: The Nineteenth Century , and (with Anthony Hecht, with whom he shared the Bollingen Prize in Poetry in 1983) Jiggery-Pokery: A Compendium of Double Dactyls . Mr. Hollander attended Columbia and Indiana Universities and was a Junior Fellow of the Society of Fellows of Harvard University. He has taught at Connecticut College and Yale, and was a professor of English at Hunter College and the Graduate Center, CUNY. He is currently Sterling Professor emeritus of English at Yale. In 1990 he received a MacArthur Fellowship . From the Hardcover edition.
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- Bookseller
- Derringer Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 28286
- Title
- Picture Window (Inscribed to a Fellow Poet)
- Author
- Hollander, John
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- very good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- Publisher
- Alfred Knopf
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2003
- Keywords
- Poetry, Inscribed
- Bookseller catalogs
- Poetry Books;
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