My Grandmother's Glass Eye
A Look at Poetry
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Word Count
75,000 words, Guess
Page Count
300 pages
Identifiers
- Internet Archivemygrandmothersgl0000rain
- ISBN-139781782397434
- ISBN-101782397434
- Library of Congress Control Number2016387800
- OCLC Control Number949756143
and 2 more
- Better World Books9781782397434
- Open LibraryOL29286981M
Classifications
- LCCPR504 .R25 2016
- LCCPR502 .R35 2016
Description
By poetry we - we the masses - mean something vague, something untrue, something uplifting, something beautiful, something so eloquent it isn't for everyday. The word poetry is up there with soul. And I am against it.' My Grandmother's Glass Eye deploys its considerable learning, its intelligent expertise, wittily, memorably. It is an exercise in demystification and clarity. If you want to know how poetry works on the page, here are sure-footed accounts of particular poems. There is something Johnsonian in Craig Raine's common sense - an elegant wrecking ball used with precision and delicacy to pick off the pretentious, the platitudinous, the over-promoted. Here, poetry is well read, attentively read, by a practitioner whose range runs from Bion to John Lennon, from Bishop to Balanchine.
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