{"product_id":"the-instant-of-knowing-josephine-jacobsen-9780472066605","title":"The Instant of Knowing: Lectures, Criticism, and Occasional Prose","description":"Josephine Jacobsen, born in 1908, had her first poem published when she was just ten years old. Though Jacobsen has been writing and publishing for almost eighty years, she remained outside the literary world until she was named Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress in 1971. She has since been honored numerous times, receiving such prestigious awards as the annual Fellowship of the Academy of American Poets, the Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize, and election to the American Academy of Arts and Letters.\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Instant of Knowing: Lectures, Criticism and Occasional Prose\u003c\/i\u003e joins recent collections of Jacobsen's poetry and short stories, bringing together for the first time the highlights of this distinguished poet's long and varied career as a literary critic, lecturer, and reviewer. Of special interest are two lectures delivered at the Library of Congress while she was Consultant in Poetry there, and a rich assortment of never before collected op-ed and travel pieces from the \u003ci\u003eBaltimore Sun\u003c\/i\u003e. The volume also includes critical pieces on Robert Frost, William Carlos Williams, e.e. cummings, Robert Lowell, A.R. Ammons, Samuel Beckett, and J.D. Salinger; an unpublished lecture, \"The Admiring Bog,\" on the perils of poetic celebrity; and an extended interview with John Wheatcroft. The book is edited and introduced by the poet Elizabeth Spires, and concludes with three recent, uncollected poems of Jacobsen's.\u003cbr\u003eJosephine Jacobsen is author of \u003ci\u003eIn the Crevice of Time: New and Collected Poems\u003c\/i\u003e ( 1995), a nominee for the National Book Award, and \u003ci\u003eWhat Goes Without Saying Collected Short Stories\u003c\/i\u003e (1996.) She continues to live and write in Baltimore. Elizabeth Spires is a writer-in-residence, Goucher College, Baltimore, Maryland, and the author of four collections of poetry.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Josephine Jacobsen\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0472066609\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780472066605\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Michigan Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/07\/2002\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 216\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.43lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.94h x 5.40w x 0.73d","brand":"Josephine Jacobsen","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":49096682897663,"sku":"9780472066605","price":21.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-instant-of-knowing-josephine-jacobsen-9780472066605","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}