Name/Title
Twenty QuestionsEntry/Object ID
2018.017.007Description
A series of linked essays relating to poetry written by J.D. "Sandy" McClatchy. This book was dedicated to Chip Kidd. From the back cover: "One of America's finest poet-critics reveals the mysteries of poetry: how it draws on our lives, and how it leads us back into them. What exactly is 'contemporary poetry'? How is it connected to older literary traditions? In twenty linked essays progressing from the autobiographical to the critical - a portrait of the author's development as a poet, incisive criticism generously interspersed with vivid anecdotes about encounters with others' lives and work, and a remarkable translation of Horace's 'Ars Poetica' unavailable elsewhere- J.D. McClatchy's latest book offers an intimate and illuminating look into the poetic mind."
Chapters include:
Reading
Dreaming
My Fountain Pen
Commonplaces
Twenty Questions
Reading Pope
Aspects of "Battle-Piece"
Woman in White
Wildness Asking for Ceremony
At Her Other Desk
Laughter in the Soul
Songs of a Curmudgeon
The Exile's Song
Chiselled Breath
Sitting Here Strangely on Top of the Sunlight
The Lost Upland
Encountering the Sublime
Braving the Elements
Masters
The Art of PoetryCollection
Local AuthorsBook Details
Author
McClatchy, J.D.Date Published
1998