Author : Michael Fried
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226263266
Total Pages : 100 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (262 download)
Book Synopsis The Next Bend in the Road by : Michael Fried
Download or read book The Next Bend in the Road written by Michael Fried and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2010-04-15 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In America today there is no lyric work more compelling and well made than To the Center of the Earth," Allen Grossman wrote ten years ago of Michael Fried's last collection of poetry. Fried's new book, The Next Bend in the Road, is a powerfully coherent gathering of lyric and prose poems that has the internal scope of a novel with a host of characters, from the poet's wife and daughter to Franz Kafka, Paul Cézanne, Osip Mandelstam, Sigmund Freud, Gisèle Lestrange, and many others; transformative encounters with works of art, literature, and philosophy, including Heinrich von Kleist's "The Earthquake in Chile," Giuseppe Ungaretti's "Veglia," and Edouard Manet's Le Déjeuner sur l'herbe; and, running through the book from beginning to end, a haunted awareness of the entanglement of the noblest accomplishments and the most intimate joys with the horrors of modern history.