[Yale-readings] American Sonnets: David Bromwich at Labyrinth

[Nancy Kuhl]

>David Bromwich
>American Sonnets: An Anthology
>Tuesday, October 2nd @ 5.30pm - Labyrinth Books New Haven
>
>Please join us for a reading of selected American sonnets with David 
>Bromwich, editor of the anthology American Sonnets, just published this month.
>
>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.
>
>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.
>
>"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." 
>American Sonnets reveals some of our greatest poets experimenting with - 
>and changing forever - a grand poetic tradition.
>
>David Bromwich is Sterling Professor of English at Yale University, and 
>the author of many books including Hazlitt: The Mind of a Critic (1984) 
>and Skeptical Music: Essays on Modern Poetry (2001). He is co-editor, with 
>John Hollander, of the Library of America's Henry James: Complete Stories 
>1892-1898
>
>To rsvp or with any questions, please call 203 787 2848

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