New Poetries and Some Old

This collection of twenty-nine essays represents a summation of Kostelanetz's thoughts on poetry since the publication of his earlier workThe Old Poetries and the New. In sections on "The New Poetries," "Some Old," and "Autobiographical Addenda," the essays range from sketches of Kenneth Burke, John Berryman, and Northrop Frye through considerations of the latest sound-text poetry to Kostelanetz's justification of his own work. These pieces reflect Kostelanetz's ongoing commitment to the esthetics he ascribes to high modernism--innovation, abstraction, intelligence, and complexity in all the arts.Kostelanetz, Richard is the author of 'New Poetries and Some Old' with ISBN 9780809316564 and ISBN 0809316560.