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<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite=""><font size=2><b>David
Bromwich<br>
American Sonnets: An Anthology</b> <br>
Tuesday, October 2nd</font> <font size=2>@ 5.30pm - Labyrinth Books New
Haven </font><br><br>
Please join us for a reading of selected American sonnets with <b>David
Bromwich</b>, editor of the anthology <b><i>American Sonnets,
</i></b>just published this month. <br><br>
Like a Copland symphony or a de Kooning nude, an American sonnet marries
European artistic tradition to New World innovation and imagination.
Here, in this unique Library of America anthology, critic David Bromwich
presents 161 sonnets and sonnet sequences by 56 of our most accomplished
poets, revealing a surprisingly supple verse form that has proven an
irresistible invitation to experiment and excellence for American poets.
<br><br>
This volume, the 25th in the American Poets Project series, offers an
unprecedented portrait of the American sonnet, including work by such
poets as Longfellow, Jones Very, Poe, Millay, Berryman, and Robert Frost.
Arranged chronologically from the colonial period to the present, this
rich and beguiling collection serves as a sort of mini-survey of American
poetry. <br><br>
"There was no good reason for the sonnet to be reborn in
America," observes Bromwich in his introduction, "except that
the thoughts and feelings of poets turned out to be renewable under this
aspect, close as the form is to aria and aphorism and syllogism, closer
still to prayer." <b><i>American Sonnets</i></b> reveals some of our
greatest poets experimenting with - and changing forever - a grand poetic
tradition.<br><br>
<b>David Bromwich</b> is Sterling Professor of English at Yale
University, and the author of many books including <i>Hazlitt: The Mind
of a Critic </i>(1984) and <i>Skeptical Music: Essays on Modern Poetry
</i>(2001). He is co-editor, with John Hollander, of the Library of
America's <i>Henry James: Complete Stories 1892-1898<br>
</i><br>
To rsvp or with any questions, please call 203 787 2848 <br>
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