{"product_id":"living-name-essays-on-american-poets-paperback","title":"Living Name: Essays on American Poets - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eMark Halliday\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eLiving Name \u003c\/i\u003eis a collection of essays on American poetry written by an expert practitioner of that art. Poet and critic Mark Halliday turns his attention to the work of poets who interest him because they create convincing voices of people dealing with the everyday. Instead of trying to survey the vast variety of modern poetry, Halliday considers an idiosyncratic selection of poets he finds compelling for their originality of style and exploration of human possibilities, including Walt Whitman, Kenneth Fearing, Kenneth Koch, Robert Pinsky, Rachel Wetzsteon, Tony Hoagland, Claire Bateman, and Dean Young. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Each essay includes thorough close readings of individual poems, reflecting a commitment to the idea that a poem as a work of art needs to be appreciated as a unified whole. Halliday's writing is judicious and meditative but not overly scholarly or academic. A long piece at the beginning of the book, \"Poetry and the Rescue of Particulars,\" argues that poems often attempt to reclaim the details of our usual routines from the chaotic confusion and noise of daily existence. The impulse to write a poem, Halliday believes, often stems from the notion that representing in poetry a sliver of human life keeps it in the world, as a trace of the vanishing moment is retained and endowed with some form of lasting reality. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Throughout \u003ci\u003eLiving Name, \u003c\/i\u003e Halliday enacts the allegiances that have driven his criticism for many years: to listen for genuine voices in poetry; to study whole poems, not merely passages; and to look for intelligent efforts to illuminate truths of human experience.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eMark Halliday \u003c\/b\u003eis the author of seven collections of poems, most recently \u003ci\u003eLosers Dream On\u003c\/i\u003e. His critical works include \u003ci\u003eStevens and the Interpersonal \u003c\/i\u003eand, with Allen Grossman, \u003ci\u003eThe Sighted Singer: Two Works on Poetry for Readers and Writers\u003c\/i\u003e. He is the winner of a National Poetry Series prize, the Juniper Prize in Poetry, and a Guggenheim Fellowship, among other honors. Halliday is Distinguished Professor of English at Ohio University.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 312\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.7 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e March 20, 2025\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45533283450982,"sku":"9780807184004","price":65.97,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0599\/7255\/0758\/files\/25iE1hzikI9780807184004.webp?v=1776739875","url":"https:\/\/infinitylightwa.com\/products\/living-name-essays-on-american-poets-paperback","provider":"Infinity Light","version":"1.0","type":"link"}