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Ambition and survival : becoming a poet / Christian Wiman.

Author: Wiman, Christian, 1966-

Imprint:Port Townsend, Wash. : Copper Canyon Press, c2007.

Descriptionxi, 249 p. ; 23 cm.

Note:"A Lannan literary selection."--Back cover.

Note:On being nowhere -- Milton in Guatemala -- Filthy lucre -- A mile from hell -- The limit -- A piece of prose -- Finishes: on ambition and survival -- An idea of order -- Fourteen fragments in lieu of a review -- Poetry in a visual culture -- In praise of rareness -- In the flux that abolishes me -- Fugitive pieces (I) -- Fugitive pieces (II) -- Notes on poetry and religion -- The druid stone: Thomas Hardy -- A new mode of damnation?: Hart Crane -- Pure honey, pure gall: Edna St. Vincent Millay -- Eight takes -- So fierce and sweet the song: George Mackay Brown -- The created and the made: Janet Lewis and the uses of convention -- Free of our humbug: Basil Bunting -- Love bade me welcome.

Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references (p. 247-248).



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