Quiet Lives

by David Cope

Book Overview

I have been much absorbed in David Cope's poetry as necessary continuation of tradition of lucid grounded sane objectivism in poetry following the visually solid practice of Charles Reznikoff & William Carlos Williams. Though the notions of 'objectivism' were common for many decades among U. S. poets, there is not a great body of direct-sighted "close to the nose" examples of poems that hit a certain ideal objectivist mark-"No ideas but in things"...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0896030482
• ISBN13: 9780896030480
• Release Date: March 1983
• Publisher: Humana
• Length: 88 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.7" x 8.1"