The Art of Recklessness

出版者:Graywolf Press

作者:Dean Young

页数:144

出版时间:2010-7-20

价格:USD 12.00

装帧:Paperback

isbn号码:9781555975623

图书标签:写作系列PoetryLiteraryCriticism

In Dean Young's sprawling and subversive first book of prose on poetry, imagination swerves into primitivism and surrealism and finally toward empathy. How can recklessness guide the poet, the artist, and the reader into art, and how can it excite in us a sort of wild receptivity, beyond craft? "Poetry is not a discipline," Young writes. "It is a hunger, a revolt, a drive, a mash note, a fright, a tantrum, a grief, a hoax, a debacle, an application, an affect . . ."