Poets, Poetics and Politics: America's Literary Community Viewed from the Letters of Rolfe Humphries, 1910-1969 - Softcover

Humphries, Rolfe

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0700605894 ISBN 13: 9780700605897

Publisher: University Press of Kansas, 1993

Synopsis

Rolfe Humphries (1894-1969) was a poet, translator, teacher, critic and editor. His letters - written mainly to Theodore Roethke, Edmund Wilson and Louise Brogan - contain portraits of some of America's literary giants and give rare glimpses of the creative process.

About this title

About the Authors

Both editors of Poets, Poetics, and Politics knew Humphries personally: Richard Gillman, as a friend for the last decade of Humphries' life; Michael Novak, as a student at the last poetry workshop he taught in 1967. Gillman, a Maine-based writer, is the recipient of three Yaddo fellowships and the author of two books of poetry, Too Much Alone and Lunch at Carcassonne. He has written essays for the New York Times Book Review.

Michael Novak, the author of three poetry volumes, The Leavenworth Poems, Sailing by the Whirlpool, and A Story to Tell, is associate professor at Saint Mary College in Leavenworth, Kansas. Ruth Limmer is the editor of What the Woman Lived: Selected Letters of Louise Bogan, 1920-1970.

Edition details

• Publisher: University Press of Kansas
• Publication date: 1993
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0700605894
• ISBN 13: 9780700605897
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 300
• Editor: Gillman Richard, Novak Michael