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Stone Cottage

Stone Cottage by James Longenbach (Paperback 1991)

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Although readers of modern literature have always known about the collaboration of W.B. Yeats and Ezra Pound, the crucial winters these poets spent living together in Stone Cottage in Sussex (1913-1916) have remained a mystery. Working from a large base of previously unpublished material, James read more...
 
Threshold

Threshold by James Longenbach (Paperback 1998)

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Thresholdis an extraordinary first collection that explores the shifting spaces between differing states of human experience. James Longenbach's poems dwell on metaphoric gates, doorways, and end points past which our everyday world seems luminous and strange. Technically superb and quietly moving, read more...
 
The Resistance to Poetry

The Resistance to Poetry by James Longenbach (Paperback 2005)

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Poetry, argues James Longenbach, is its own best enemy. Examining a wide array of poets, from Callimachus to Louise Glück, he explains that the resistance to poetry is, quite specifically, the wonder of poetry. Poems do convey knowledge, he suggests, but they do so in forms that continually work read more...
 
Draft of a Letter (Phoenix Poets Series)

Draft of a Letter (Phoenix Poets Series) by James Longenbach (Paperback 2007)

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FromSecond Draft: What other people learn From birth, Betrayal, I learned late. My soul perched On an olive branch Combing itself, Waving its plumes. I said Being mortal, I aspire to Mortal things. I need you, Said my soul, If you're telling the truth. Draft of a Letteris a book about beliefnot read more...
 
Fleet river

Fleet river by James Longenbach (Paperback 2003)

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traces the journey of two travelers through landscapes earthly and otherworldly, following the river as it turns, dips underground, then reemerges unexpectedly as they fall in love with the world, as though for the first time. Mimicking the river's shifting course, the poems revise themselves as read more...
 
The Art of the Poetic Line (Art of)

The Art of the Poetic Line (Art of) by James Longenbach (Paperback 2007)

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James Longenbach is the author of three poetry collections, including Draft of a Letter; five works of criticism, including The Resistance to Poetry, as well as numerous essays and reviews. He is Joseph Henry Gilmore Professor of English at the University of Rochester. "Poetry is the sound of read more...
 
The Art of the Poetic Line

The Art of the Poetic Line by James Longenbach (Paperback 2007)

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The Art Of series is a new line of books reinvigorating the practice of craft and criticism. Each book will be a brief, witty, and useful exploration of fiction, nonfiction, or poetry by a writer impassioned by a singular craft issue. The Art Of volumes will provide a series of sustained read more...
 

 


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