Description
Poetry. "He has had the skill and courage to confront, absorb, and renew our poetic tradition at its most vital."—Harold Bloom
"Few poets could sustain, as Corn does, both the fiery voluptuousness of the abstract oracular passages, and the broken simplicity of the late 20th-century voice, tentative, self-conscious, unheroic."—Wayne Koestenbaum
"Seeing the very fact of mobility and diversity as an epic theme, he brings to it a discerning eye and ear, a marvelous memory for detail, and above all an exhilarating range of sympathy."—Amy Clampitt
Author Bio
Since the appearance of his first book of poems in 1976, Alfred Corn has distinguished himself as one of the most original poets writing in the United States. In addition to his poems, Corn has also published one novel, a highly praised manual of prosody, a collection of essays, translations of poetry and drama, and critical writing on art, music, and the theater, as well as an edited collection of essays on the New Testament. Recent books include MIRANDA'S BOOK (Eyewear Publishing, 2014), UNIONS (Barrow Street Press, 2014), THE POEM'S HEARTBEAT: A MANUAL OF PROSODY (Copper Canyon Press, 2008), and CONTRADICTIONS (Copper Canyon Press, 2008).
Author City: HOPKINTON, RI USA