James Laughlin (1914-97) was a poet of distinction as well as the founding publisher of New Directions. A Commonplace Book of Pentastichs, the last book of his own that he helped to prepare, is a compilation of 249 poems composed in a five-line stanza form 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 present selection is of recent short-line compositions in natural voice cadence, many of them marginal jottings and paraphrases of commonplace book notations." Here, then, are armchair marginalia and apercus to be savored at random.
- ISBN:
- 9780811213868
- 9780811213868
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Category:
- Poetry by individual poets
- Format:
- Hardback
- Publication Date:
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13-03-2009
- Language:
- English
- Publisher:
- New Directions Publishing Corporation
- Country of origin:
- United States
- Pages:
- 95
- Dimensions (mm):
- 236x160x15mm
- Weight:
- 0.34kg
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