The Castle of Perseverance: Job Opportunities in Contemporary Poetry

by Thomas M. Disch

This collection by poet and novelist Thomas M. Disch offers a generous assortment of his writing on various literary topics, his reviews of plays and opera, and some of his poetry. The first essay, "The Future of the Book," prophesies the decline of print media and the increasing prominence of the internet and hypertext as a means of disseminating authors' work. Unlike Sven Birkerts, Disch does not mourn nostalgically the loss of Gutenberg's printing...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0472067508
• ISBN13: 9780472067503
• Release Date: July 2002
• Publisher: University of Michigan Press
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.4" x 7.9"