{"product_id":"corrupted-into-song-the-complete-poems-of-alvin-feinman-paperback","title":"Corrupted Into Song: The Complete Poems of Alvin Feinman - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eAlvin Feinman\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eDeborah Dorfman\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor), \u003cb\u003eHarold Bloom\u003c\/b\u003e (Preface by)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA definitive edition that introduces a major American poet to a new generation of readers\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAccording to Harold Bloom, \"The best of Alvin Feinman's poetry is as good as anything by a twentieth-century American. His work achieves the greatness of the American sublime.\" Yet, in part because he published so sparsely, Feinman remained little-read and largely unknown when he died in 2008. This definitive edition of Feinman's complete work, which includes fifty-seven previously published poems and thirty-nine unpublished poems discovered among his manuscripts, introduces a new generation of readers to the lyrical intensity and philosophical ambition of this major American poet. Harold Bloom, a lifelong friend of Feinman, provides a preface in which he examines Feinman's work in the context of the strongest poets of his generation--John Ashbery, James Merrill, and A. R. Ammons--while the introduction by James Geary, who studied with Feinman at Bennington College, presents a biographical and critical sketch of this remarkable poet and teacher. \u003ci\u003eCorrupted into Song\u003c\/i\u003e restores Feinman's work to its rightful place alongside that of poets like Hart Crane and Wallace Stevens, with whom his poetry and poetics have so much in common.\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Alvin Feinman's poems are perhaps the purest evidence of the extinction of personality T. S. Eliot believed was one of poetry's necessities. As an aspiration, extinction of personality is as dangerously thrilling as being exposed to a siren's song. As an achievement, Feinman's exquisite, visionary poems, tied to the mast of their own making, allow us to behold fierce, unyielding perceptions.\"\u003cb\u003e--Michael Collier, director of the University of Maryland Creative Writing Program and the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Poetry is making, \u003ci\u003epoesis\u003c\/i\u003e. And for a time, Alvin Feinman was a maker, a majestic poet who came to embrace his own intolerable limitations, his own dead-end. After long silence, one rejoices in these almost forgotten, rigorous, earthly, purgative poems.\"\u003cb\u003e--Henri Cole\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAlvin Feinman\u003c\/b\u003e (1929-2008) taught literature at Bennington College from 1969 to 1994. He was the author of \u003ci\u003ePreambles and Other Poems\u003c\/i\u003e and an expanded edition of that work, \u003ci\u003ePoems\u003c\/i\u003e (Princeton). He was born in Brooklyn, New York, and educated at Brooklyn College, the University of Chicago, and Yale University. Feinman's wife, \u003cb\u003eDeborah Dorfman\u003c\/b\u003e (1934-2015), taught literature at Temple University, Wesleyan University, and SUNY Albany. \u003cb\u003eHarold Bloom\u003c\/b\u003e (1930-2019) was Sterling Professor of the Humanities and English at Yale University. \u003cb\u003eJames Geary\u003c\/b\u003e is deputy curator of the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard University and the author, most recently, of \u003ci\u003eI Is an Other: The Secret Life of Metaphor and How It Shapes the Way We See the World\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 168\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.4 x 9.2 x 5.9 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e July 05, 2016\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45605722128428,"sku":"9780691170534","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/smartsupplydeals.com\/products\/corrupted-into-song-the-complete-poems-of-alvin-feinman-paperback","provider":"Smart supply deals","version":"1.0","type":"link"}