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Title: Desperate Measures
Author: William Logan
Narrator: Walter Dixon
Format: Unabridged
Length: 12 hrs and 41 mins
Language: English
Release date: 09-03-10
Publisher: University Press Audiobooks
Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 1 votes
Genres: Drama & Poetry, Poetry
Publisher's Summary:
William Logan has been called "the most hated man in American poetry" and the most dangerous poetry critic since Randall Jarrell. Beginning with an exploration of some of Robert Frost's least-known poems, these essays consider Ezra Pound's letters, T. S. Elliot's metaphysical lectures, the lightness of Elizabeth Bishop, and the civil tongue of Richard Wilbur, finding in poetry a language that lasts beyond the petty conventions of the age.
While criticism of contemporary poetry is often pallid, diplomatic, and full of evasive judgments, Logan is willing to raise hackles, to be cheerfully controversial. The often eloquent criticism in Desperate Measures, which views poetry from one end of the last century to the other, is a passionate defense of poetry in an unpoetic time.
This book is published by University Press of Florida.
Critic Reviews:
"The preeminent poet-critic of his generation." (Kirkus Reviews)
"William Logan is the best practical critic around." (Christian Wiman, Poetry)
