false <![CDATA[The Anthologist]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255837544m/6364068.jpg 6364068 3 <i>The Anthologist</i> is narrated by Paul Chowder -- a once-in-a-while-published kind of poet who is writing the introduction to a new anthology of poetry. He's having a hard time getting started because his career is floundering, his girlfriend Roz has recently left him, and he is thinking about the great poets throughout history who have suffered far worse and deserve to feel sorry for themselves. He has also promised to reveal many wonderful secrets and tips and tricks about poetry, and it looks like the introduction will be a little longer than he'd thought. What unfolds is a wholly entertaining and beguiling love story about poetry: from Tennyson, Swinburne, and Yeats to the moderns (Roethke, Bogan, Merwin) to the staff of The New Yorker, what Paul reveals is astonishing and makes one realize how incredibly important poetry is to our lives. At the same time, Paul barely manages to realize all of this himself, and the result is a tenderly romantic, hilarious, and inspired novel. 6551304 8 9 2009 The Anthologist total:155|5:53|4:62|3:34|2:2|1:4| 155 623 537 65 5 1 false false Fri Oct 23 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Oct 24 12:11:18 -0700 2009 Sat Oct 24 12:12:01 -0700 2009
Let me start again, to give this book its just review. Is it possible for a book to be better than any graduate poetry seminar a...more...]]> 4 0 false false Tue Oct 13 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Oct 14 21:00:59 -0700 2009 Wed Oct 14 21:04:47 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 1 false false Wed Oct 07 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Oct 08 09:16:43 -0700 2009 Thu Oct 08 09:24:10 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Sun Oct 04 16:23:45 -0700 2009 Sun Oct 04 16:39:30 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Sat Sep 26 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Sep 26 22:56:43 -0700 2009 Sat Sep 26 23:00:03 -0700 2009
“One day the English language is going to perish. The easy spokeness of it will perish and go black and crumbly-maybe-and it will become a language like Latin that learned people learn. And scholars will write studies of Larry Sanders and Friends and Will & Grace and El...more...]]> 4 0 false false Sun Sep 20 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Sep 20 14:40:18 -0700 2009 Sun Sep 20 14:40:49 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Thu Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Oct 17 13:59:56 -0700 2009 Sat Oct 17 14:17:45 -0700 2009
Paul Chowder, a poet who is writing an anthology of poems that rhyme, is caantakerous and lovable. The book is mostly about the details of his daily life; the washin...more...]]> 5 0 false false Tue Sep 15 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Sep 15 12:30:22 -0700 2009 Tue Sep 15 12:52:37 -0700 2009 This latest is the the story of Paul Chowder, a minor poet commissioned to write the intro to a putative anthology of poems. Trouble is he's blocked. Or is he? Roz, his long(life)time partner certainly th...more...]]> 5 0 false false Sat Jun 27 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Jun 23 19:06:16 -0700 2009 Sat Jun 27 16:09:33 -0700 2009 more...]]> 1 0 false false Sat Sep 12 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Sep 11 17:19:42 -0700 2009 Sat Sep 12 14:38:39 -0700 2009
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Nicholson Baker’s The Anthologist holds nothing back: from the first few pages, it is clear that Paul Chowder is an intel...more...]]> 3 0 false false Thu Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Sep 16 23:42:17 -0700 2009 Thu Oct 01 18:16:25 -0700 2009 Human Smoke, sounded captious & cranky. In this novel, the "plot" (there's hardly one worth the name) centers on Paul Chowder, a middle-aged, not-too-talented poet writing an introduction to an antho...more...]]> 4 0 false false Sat Sep 19 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Sep 04 12:10:01 -0700 2009 Sun Sep 20 09:51:40 -0700 2009
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