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A collection of literary criticism on topics such as biography, the enigma of poetic inspiration, contemporary nostalgia, our modern sense of time, the future of the creative spirit, and more.

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Full title :Readings / Sven Birkerts.

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A collection of literary criticism on topics such as biography, the enigma of poetic inspiration, contemporary nostalgia, our modern sense of time, the future of the creative spirit, and more.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:©1999.

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Publisher(s):Graywolf Press
Place of Publication:St. Paul, Minn
Language:eng
Publication Date:©1999.

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Description:1 online resource (263 pages)

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oclc:ocn616456538
LC Classification:PN771
Dewey Decimal:809/.04

The millenial warp -- American nostalgias -- Sense and semblance: the implications of virtuality -- The idea of the Internet -- Walking after midnight -- Only god can make a tree -- Reflections of a nonpolitical man; or, Why I can't in good conscience write about Noam Chomsky -- An open invitation to extraterrestrials -- Biography and the dissolving self -- The grasshopper on the windowsill -- States of reading -- Against the current -- Reading and depth of field -- Docufiction -- "Poetry" and "Politics" -- Running out of gas -- Second thoughts -- This year's canon -- When lightning strikes -- On a stanza by John Keats -- Rainer Maria Rilke -- Robert Lowell -- Seamus Heaney -- Atmospheres of identity: Elizabeth Bishop -- The leaning umbrella: a reflection on Flaubert -- A Gatsby for today -- Jack Kerouac -- Destinies of character -- Don DeLillo's Underworld.