Devoted mainly to aspects of American literature, from Walt Whitman to the contemporary voices of Allen Ginsberg and August Kleinsahler, this book ranges from figures such as H.D., Marianne Moore and Mina Loy - brought together under the title "Three Hard Women" - the Modernist T.S. Eliot, Ezra Pound and Basil Bunting, and the West Coast writers Robert Duncan and Jack Sharpless. The book also includes personal memoirs of Christopher Isherwood and Yvor Winters, and a discussion between Gunn and Jim Powell, himself the ...
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Devoted mainly to aspects of American literature, from Walt Whitman to the contemporary voices of Allen Ginsberg and August Kleinsahler, this book ranges from figures such as H.D., Marianne Moore and Mina Loy - brought together under the title "Three Hard Women" - the Modernist T.S. Eliot, Ezra Pound and Basil Bunting, and the West Coast writers Robert Duncan and Jack Sharpless. The book also includes personal memoirs of Christopher Isherwood and Yvor Winters, and a discussion between Gunn and Jim Powell, himself the subject of an earlier review.
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