J. T. Barbarese

Inventions on the Brink (eBook, ePUB)

Essays

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Inventions on the Brink, a collection of literary journalism by J. T. Barbarese, offers engagingly plainspoken and informed essays on American poetry from Edgar Allan Poe to the present, written by a poet with long experience in the classroom. The collection discusses writers as divergent as Walt Whitman and Ezra Pound, Hart Crane and A. R. Ammons, Gerald Stern and John Prine. It includes a separate section of essays examining the craft of translation with attention to specific works translated from ancient Greek, Italian, and modern French.

A distinguishing feature of the book is that it is informed by literary theory but independent of any particular critical modality. Barbarese writes about literature for a general audience, particularly readers with wide tastes interested in engaging with literary art. His essays are the outcome of deeply reading and internalizing work he has known, studied, and admired over the course of a long career of publishing, teaching, and public lecturing.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Princeton University Press
• Seitenzahl: 270
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. November 2025
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780807185643
• Artikelnr.: 73863032

Autorenporträt

J. T. Barbarese, professor emeritus of English at Rutgers University, is the author of six books of poetry, including Sweet Spot and True Does Nothing. His recent translations include After Pre¿vert: Poems from "Paroles," and his work has appeared in publications such as The Atlantic, The New Yorker, Poetry magazine, and Times Literary Supplement.