Ambiguous Dancers of Fame: Collected Poems 1945-1986-Fast Shipping

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Title: Ambiguous Dancers of Fame: Collected Poems 1945-1986

Author: James Schevill

ISBN: 0804008906

Publisher: Swallow Press

Published: 1987

Binding: Paperback

Language: English

Edition: 1

Number of Pages: 350

Condition Note: Signed by author. Inscribed to Edward Halsey Foster. Clean, unmarked copy with some edge wear. Good binding. Dust jacket included if issued with one. We ship in recyclable American-made mailers. 100% money-back guarantee on all orders.

Publisher : This second volume of James Schevill’s collected poems is a companion to his remarkable ongoing sequence of poems, The American Fantasies, published by Swallow in 1983. This collection extends the scope of the poet’s concern with American power and influences to Mexico, Central America, and the Caribbean. In these poems, Schevill reveals again the range of his lyrical and dramatic powers. As M.I. Rosenthal has written, Schevill has “a scholar’s appetite for genuine knowledge, a playwright’s feeling for vigorous detail illuminating personalities and situation, and a lyric poet’s gift for catching emotional essences and nuances.” Of The American Fantasies, Richard Eberhart has said that the collection “…has a Rushmore largeness, a compendious nature, straightforward presentations covering continent-cast experiences over a long period of richness of true feelings in monumental unity of tone and book has a dazzling number of magnificent poems.”
Ambiguous Dancers of Fame restores to print most of Schevill’s significant work that has been out of print and, combined with The American Fantasies, represents his life’s work in poetry. Together, the two books illustrate James Schevill’s lifelong pursuit of the unique problems of American identity.