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The Wounded Surgeon: Confession and Transformation in Six American Poets: The Poetry of Lowell, Bishop, Berryman, Jarrell, Schwartz, and Pl
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2005
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The Modern Element: Essays on Contemporary Poetry
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2008
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Benjamin Disraeli
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2008
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Why Trilling Matters
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published
2011
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Invasions: New Poems
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2008
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The Thousand Wells: Poems
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2002
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“Once a poet calls his myth a myth, he prevents the reader from treating it as a reality; we use the word 'myth' only for stories we ourselves cannot believe.”
― Adam Kirsch
― Adam Kirsch
“According to Proust, one proof that we are reading a major new writer is that his writing immediately strikes us as ugly. Only minor writers write beautifully, since they simply reflect back to us our preconceived notion of what beauty is; we have no problem understanding what they are up to, since we have seen it many times before. When a writer is truly original, his failure to be conventionally beautiful makes us see him, initially, as shapeless, awkward, or perverse. Only once we have learned how to read him do we realize that this ugliness is really a new, totally unexpected kind of beauty and that what seemed wrong in his writing is exactly what makes him great.”
― Adam Kirsch
― Adam Kirsch
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