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This is a How-to book, Grossman explains. The heroic singer of tradition is blind. A New singer in this present must be sighted. In this book the poet intends to say something, insofar as a poet can, about the common sadness of living and dying in the world. Like the blind bard of old, Grossman's Sighted Singer conjures visions both high and low, in mythopoetic resonances that excite the sorrows and the laughter of the gods and men.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ LIKE_NEW \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49567894208785,"sku":"GOR013560944","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":52864382173457,"sku":"CIN0811214648G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0811214648.jpg?v=1751297220"},{"product_id":"true-love-book-allen-grossman-9780226309743","title":"True-Love","description":"Contends with challenges to the validity of the poetic imagination, from Adorno's maxim 'No poetry after Auschwitz,' to the claims of religious authority upon truth, and the ultimate challenge posed by the fact of death itself.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":49982150541585,"sku":"CIN0226309746G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":53349524439313,"sku":"GOR014867400","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":53349890785553,"sku":"GOR014867504","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0226309746.jpg?v=1751037645"},{"product_id":"sighted-singer-book-allen-grossman-9780801842436","title":"The Sighted Singer","description":"During a week in January 1981, poets Allen Grossman and Mark Halliday met for a series of conversations exploring \"the meanings for us as poets arising from the difference between us-- differences of generation and education as well as of temperament and poetic style.\" The result was \"Against Our Vanishing\", which Charles Altieri called \" the best in contemporary poetic thinking.\"  \"The Sighted Singer: Two Works on Poetry for Readers and Writers\" makes available a revised and significantly expanded version of \"Against Our Vanishing\" and includes Grossman's recent treatise \"Summa Lyrica: A Primer of the Commonplaces in the Speculative Poetics\". This combined edition provides a sophisticated yet accessible discussion-- across generations-- of \"the fundamental discourse of poetic structure\". For students and teachers, for writers and readers, \"The Sighted Singer\" is a splendid introduction to both the tradition of poetry and its contemporary practice.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50245015863569,"sku":"CIN0801842433VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":51695573336337,"sku":"CIN0801842433G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52137056338193,"sku":"NLS9780801842436","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":52153015533841,"sku":"GOR009755570","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52740092264721,"sku":"NIN9780801842436","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0801842433.jpg?v=1751361695"},{"product_id":"descartes-loneliness-book-allen-grossman-9780811217118","title":"Descartes' Loneliness","description":"Allen Grossman's newest work Descartes' Loneliness blends the comic and tragic. As the writer Ha Jin once wrote, it is \"remarkable for the stout spirit of the speaker who dares to be funny while tackling such an austere subject as death.\" Poems such as \"The Famished Dead,\" where the poet is visited by lost loved ones, \"one at a time,\" confirm Jorie Graham's observation that \"from the bottom reaches of the underworld, to the elevations from which one need cry to be heard—Grossman invents such peace as Poetry can invent.\"","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50296997249297,"sku":"CIN0811217116G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51008051380497,"sku":"NIN9780811217118","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0811217116.jpg?v=1751362025"},{"product_id":"ether-dome-and-other-poems-book-allen-grossman-9780811211772","title":"The Ether Dome and Other Poems","description":"In addition to substantial new work, Allen Grossman in The Ether Dome and Other Poems New and Selected 1979-1991 gives his readers a retrospective of a life in poetry that has brought him such honors as a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Witter Bynner Prize of the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, and a MacArthur Fellowship. The Ether Dome is his seventh book of poems.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50362064404753,"sku":"CIN0811211770G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52740254204177,"sku":"NIN9780811211772","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0811211770.jpg?v=1751297212"},{"product_id":"philosopher-s-window-and-other-poems-book-allen-grossman-9780811213004","title":"The Philosopher's Window and Other Poems","description":"The speaker of The Philosopher's Window and Other Poems, Allen Grossman tells us, is an old man compelled by the insistent questioning of the children to explain himself - and in this way, the world. He begins with creation (The Great Work Farm Elegy), recalls the romantic quest of youth (The Philosopher's Window), returns to reality (The Snowfall and Whoever Builds). His tales told, the old man wakes in a stormy springtime (June, June), when the lilacs are gone. Grossman's allegory of life's journey, at once sonorous and antic, takes in the high and the low in these new visionary songs of innocence and experience.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ WELL_READ \/ SBYB","offer_id":50362096714001,"sku":"CIN0811213005A","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":53693953671441,"sku":"NGR9780811213004","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0811213005.jpg?v=1751329661"},{"product_id":"woman-on-the-bridge-poetry-book-allen-grossman-9780811207140","title":"The Woman on the Bridge. ...: Poetry","description":"The Woman on the Bridge over the Chicago River is Allen Grossman’s first collection with New Directions. His voice is astonishingly contemporary, his often dissociated imagery bordering on the surreal––yet one hears in his verse classical and Biblical echoes and, on occasion, darker medieval undertones. The brilliance of his imagination works against a measured eloquence, setting up a fine-edged tension not unlike the prophetic verse of William Blake, the wild dithyrambs of David, or the more controlled metrics of Catullus and Villon.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50366769824017,"sku":"CIN0811207145G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":53706093953297,"sku":"NGR9780811207140","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0811207145.jpg?v=1751170601"},{"product_id":"bright-nails-scattered-on-the-ground-poetry-book-allen-grossman-9780811209762","title":"The Bright Nails Scattered on the Ground: Poetry","description":"A series of poems traces the course of a love affair from both the man's and the woman's point of view.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50366812356881,"sku":"CIN0811209768G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52740228055313,"sku":"NIN9780811209762","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0811209768.jpg?v=1750946312"},{"product_id":"sweet-youth-poems-book-allen-grossman-9780811215220","title":"Sweet Youth: Poems","description":"A comprehensive lifetime selection of poetryfrom the Sweet Youth to the Old Man. 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Since then, there have been six more books of poetry and four of prose, though in \"Sweet Youth,\" all the poems of \"Old Man\" are new, written in his seventieth year. Grossman is now the Andrew Mellon Professor of the Humanities at The Johns Hopkins University.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":53614598684945,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":53614598783249,"sku":"NGR9780811215220","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9780811215220.jpg?v=1780352111"}],"url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/en-gb\/collections\/author-books-by-allen-grossman.oembed","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}