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Against the Evidence: Selected Poems, 1934 1994

Against the Evidence: Selected Poems, 1934 1994

Ignatow, David

Paperback

Series: Wesleyan Poetry

General Poetry

ISBN10: 0819512141
ISBN13: 9780819512147
Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
Published: Jan 1 1994
Pages: 196
Weight: 0.68
Height: 0.61 Width: 6.04 Depth: 8.98
Language: English

Rare poetry concerning human mortality and alienation.

For over half a century, David Ignatow has crafted spare, plain, haunting poetry pf working life, urban images, and dark humor. The poetic heir of Whitman and William Carlos Williams, Ignatow is characteristically concerned with human mortality and human alienation in the world: the world as it is, defined by suffering and despair, yet at crucial times redeemed by cosmic vision and shared lives. His development as a poet is chronicled in Against the Evidence, title of the poem in part quoted above and meant by Ignatow as the metaphor for the whole body of his work.

Where his previous collections have been organized thematically, Ignatow here arranges his poems according to the decade in which they were written...returning each to its chronological order. Against the Evidence charts the evolution of his themes from the earliest origin in the Thirties to their present extraordinary manifestation in a variety of poetic forms and modes.

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