The King My Father's WreckStory Line Press, 1995 - 194 sidor From the old-world schools of Jamaica, to the battlefields of France, to the schizophrenic world of New York publishing and American Academia, Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Louis Simpson tells his own story as only a master poet can. Simpson is also the recipient of the Columbia Medal for Excellence and Guggenheim fellowships. 12 black-and-white photos. |
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... writers but were not in awe of English literature - they were writing poems and stories set in Jamaica and using Jamaican words and phrases . They weren't trying to write like Englishmen and failing , they were writ- ing like themselves ...
... writers but were not in awe of English literature - they were writing poems and stories set in Jamaica and using Jamaican words and phrases . They weren't trying to write like Englishmen and failing , they were writ- ing like themselves ...
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... writer , for I don't have a sub- ject ... mountain - climbing , crossing the Pacific on a raft , not even World War II . All I have is a love of writing , and it doesn't have to be my own . There was one thing I could do . In order to ...
... writer , for I don't have a sub- ject ... mountain - climbing , crossing the Pacific on a raft , not even World War II . All I have is a love of writing , and it doesn't have to be my own . There was one thing I could do . In order to ...
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... writing that moves us , not someone's attempt to express an idea no one else has had , in a way no one else would say it . The writing that matters speaks to our common humanity in words that everyone can understand . Jimmy was a ...
... writing that moves us , not someone's attempt to express an idea no one else has had , in a way no one else would say it . The writing that matters speaks to our common humanity in words that everyone can understand . Jimmy was a ...
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