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One of our most acclaimed and versatile authors, Fred Chappell is comfortably at home in fiction, poetry, and literary criticism. A Way of Happening gathers his essays and reviews of contemporary poetry. Chappell consider new writers as well as more established authors, including Alfred Corn, William Matthews, A. R. Ammons, Linda Pastan, Julia Randall, Cornelius Eady, Alan Shapiro, and many others. And there are essays on the plight of the critic ("Thanks but No Thanks") and the delicate role of the writing teacher ("First Night Come Round Again"). ** From Library Journal Celebrated already as an award-winning poet and novelist with over two dozen books to his credit, Chappell comes across in this collection as the ideal of the well-read, chatty critic. Most of these 17 pieces have appeared previously in The Georgia Review and other journals, but they deserve to be gathered into a single collection. Chappell discusses five or six poets in detail in each essay and mentions scores of others, so that the result is an encyclopedic work of criticism that not only presents fresh ideas about familiar poets but also introduces new writers whose work is well worth discovering. And to make

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Author

Chappell, Fred

Publisher

Picador USA

Published

1998

Language

EN

ISBN

9780312180331

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Fiction, Poetry