| Description |
1 online resource (xi, 230 pages) |
| Contents |
My Father's Job Was Crime -- Name-Dropping -- My Penchant for Violence: Poets and Physical Courage -- Their Fathers' Queer Sons: The Apotheosis of Larry Levis -- My Gorgons -- Local Poets -- Shakespeare, on Acid -- My Wicked Thirties -- Fresno, California: "Armpit of America" and Breeding Ground of American Poets -- Poetry Is a Dead Art -- What Poets Know: Dry and Wet Knowing -- The Magic Book: Why I Thought Publishing a Book Would Change Everything -- Take My Wife, Please: Poetry Readings and Stand-Up -- AWP and Me: A Meditation -- A Privateer in the Arts: Arnold Johnston -- Soul Retrieval -- Straight and Normal: Poets and Drugs in the New Age -- "The Raggedy-Ass Masses": Poets and Democracy -- The Dick and the Donald: White Privilege and Flimflam -- A Dead Dog and a Boy |
| Summary |
"In Poets and the Fools Who Love Them, a wide-ranging, freewheeling work of memoir, Richard Katrovas describes his passage through the world of poets and poetry over the past forty years. He braids personal, institutional, and cultural histories while considering the relation of lyric art to its pedagogy, framed in the context of his own idiosyncratic, sometimes picaresque life story, which included a childhood on the highways of America with criminal parents, an adolescence in federal housing projects and later in Sasebo, Japan, and an adulthood in academe. Featuring over twenty essays, each self-contained yet adding to a larger portrait of a life in poetry, Poets and the Fools Who Love Them both celebrates and critiques, as well as attempts to describe broadly, what it means to be an American poet in the twenty-first century. Katrovas meditates on what he takes to be the defining issues of our time regarding the role of the poet specifically and the role of the artist broadly. At its base, the book offers a love letter to American poetry and to literary artists"-- Provided by publisher |
| Notes |
Includes index |
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Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on May 05, 2022) |
| Subject |
Katrovas, Richard
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Katrovas, Richard |
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Poets, American -- 20th century -- Biography
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Poetry -- Authorship -- History -- 20th century
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Poetry -- Authorship
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Poets, American
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| Genre/Form |
autobiographies (literary genre)
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essays.
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Autobiographies
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Biographies
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Essays
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History
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Autobiographies.
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Essays.
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Autobiographies.
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Essais.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2021044154 |
| ISBN |
9780807177457 |
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0807177458 |
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9780807177440 |
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080717744X |
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