Author: HOFMANN, MICHAEL (1957 AUGUST 25-)
Title: Behind the lines : pieces on writing and pictures / Michael Hofmann
Description: London ; New York : Faber and Faber 2001. First Edition. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust-wrapper. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight. bright. clean and especially sharp-cornered.Physical description; xiii. 321 p. ; 23 cm. Contents; Machine generated contents note: Wallace Stevens I -- Frederick Seidel 5 -- Randall Jarrell: Poetry io -- Randall Jarrell: Letters 17 -- John Berryman zI -- Robert Lowell's Prose 35 -- Weldon Kees 40 -- Elizabeth Bishop: Prose 41 -- Elizabeth Bishop: Letters 44 -- Frank O'Hara 47 -- C. K. Williams 55 -- Rilke: Poetry and Letters 60 -- Rilke: Life and Uncollected Poems 68 -- Gottfried Benn 74 -- Georg Trakl 84 -- Bertolt Brecht: Life go -- Bertolt Brecht: Letters. Poems and Songs 98 -- Paul Celan I05 -- Anna Akhmatova ii 6 -- Joseph Brodsky II9 -- Max Beckmann and Joseph Brodsky I32 -- Eugenio Montale 33 -- Ian Hamilton 142 -- Tom Paulin 149 -- Paul Muldoon 56 -- Seamus Heaney I64 -- Otto Dix 172 -- Anselm Kiefer 183 -- Egon Schiele I89 -- George Grosz I93 -- Behind The Lines -- Edvard Munh 197 -- Arturo Di Stefano 203 -- Pericles 209 -- Eugene O'Neill 212 -- Odon von Horvath 214 -- Thomas Bernhard 2i6 -- Friedrich Durrenmatt zI8 -- Voyager zzi -- Wings of Desire 223 -- Until the. Summary; Behind the Lines is a gathering of reviews and critical writings from one of our foremost poets. Hofmann's preoccupations as a reader are manifold. whether looking east to the writers of the other Europe or westwards to the American scene. There are pieces here on such diverse figures as Frank O'Hara. Eugenio Montale. Seamus Heaney. Otto Dix. Wim Wenders. Paul Muldoon and Malcolm Lowry. The virtues of Michael Hofmann's prose are continuous with those of his poetry. No reader has more adroit ways of withholding assent. or a style so raptly self-searching in its enthusiasms. Subjects; Books — Reviews. Literature — History and criticism. Art criticism. Poetry — History and criticism. Painting — History and criticism. Criticism. Literary studies: from (c 1900 -). Poetry texts & anthologies. English ; British Isles. Literary Collections / Essays. Art / Criticism & Theory. Literature ; 20th century ; History and criticism ; Art criticism ; Art and literature ; Motion pictures ; History. ISBN: 0571195237. Weight in Kg appr.:

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