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A Commonplace Book of Pentastichs
by James Laughlin ; Hayden Carruth
ISBN: 0811213862
ISBN-13: 9780811213868
Format: Hardcover
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Bibliographic Details
Publisher: New Directions
Published date: 1998
Size: 6.5 x 9.5 inches
Weight: 0.75 pounds
Pages: 94
Publisher's Notes
James Laughlin (1914-1997) was a poet of distinction as well as the founding publisher of New Directions, "A Common Place Book of Pentastichs," the last book of his own that he helped to prepare in his lifetime, is a compilation of 249 poems composed in a new form of his own devising first introduced in "The Secret Room" (1997). A note to "Thirty-nine Pentastichs" in that earlier volume explains: "A 'pentastich' refers simply to a poem of five lines, without regard to metrics. The world is Greek-derived, from 'pentastichos,' though few survive from ancient times. The present selection is of recent short-line compositions in natural voice cadence, many of them marginal jottings and paraphrases of common place book notations." Musing on the full collection, Hayden Carruth writes in his introduction: "For the reader it is a survey of literature that will never be found in a classroom--praise whatever gods may be--but indubitably will be found in loving and long-standing proximity on many a bedside table."
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A Commonplace Book of Pentastichs
James Laughlin, Hayden Carruth
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