The Woman on the Bridge over the Chicago River is Allen Grossman's first collection with New Directions. His voice is astonishingly contemporary, his often dissociated imagery bordering on the surreal--yet one hears in his verse classical and Biblical echoes and, on occasion, darker medieval undertones. The brilliance of his imagination works against a measured eloquence, setting up a fine-edged tension not unlike the prophetic verse of William Blake, the wild dithyrambs of David, or the more controlled metrics of Catullus ...
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The Woman on the Bridge over the Chicago River is Allen Grossman's first collection with New Directions. His voice is astonishingly contemporary, his often dissociated imagery bordering on the surreal--yet one hears in his verse classical and Biblical echoes and, on occasion, darker medieval undertones. The brilliance of his imagination works against a measured eloquence, setting up a fine-edged tension not unlike the prophetic verse of William Blake, the wild dithyrambs of David, or the more controlled metrics of Catullus and Villon.
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Very Good- NOT ex-library. 1st paperback printing, with foreword by Robert Fitzgerald. Previous owner's name on inside of front cover, otherwise tight and clean. Light shelfwear. Ships from Dinkytown in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
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Very Good. Book. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. New York: New Directions, 1979. 8vo. First printing in wrappers, issued simultaneously with hardcover. 82 pp. "Allen Grossman seems to me among the best, and least known, of the middle generation of American poets: the generation of Ashbery and Merwin and James Wright.." [D. Bromwitch, The New Republic]. Small stain cover of rear cover. Very good.