{"product_id":"the-man-who-is-and-andrew-stambuk-9781558498983","title":"The Man Who Is and Is Not There: The Poetry and Prose of Robert Francis","description":"\u003cp\u003eRobert Francis (1901-1987), the author of eight volumes of poetry, an autobiography, a book of fiction, essays on poetry, and a reminiscence of Robert Frost, lived for most of his career on the outskirts of Amherst, Massachusetts, devoting himself to Yankee simplicity and self-renunciation derived from his reading of Thoreau. His preference for solitude and disinclination to write about or promote himself account for the elusiveness of his persona in his prose and poetry. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis book charts how Francis developed and elaborated this persona through distanced self-portraits in prose and through poems that both reveal and conceal the self of the poet. Folded into the study are discussions of Francis's pastoralism, his affinities with Emerson and Thoreau, his experimentation with new poetic forms, his protest against the Vietnam War and environmental despoliation, his homoeroticism, and a comparison of his poetry with that of Robert Frost. The book also explores Francis's characteristic attitude, figured as \"hovering,\" where his speaker is both subject and object, writing about himself while inhabiting the role of detached observer. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eComplementing the emphasis on Francis's elusiveness, Andrew Stambuk offers readings of his poems attentive to aesthetic qualities that give them their particular reticence. Stambuk's sensitive evaluations underscore that Francis is a craftsman of intricate precisions whose work speaks to contemporary political and global concerns.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Andrew Stambuk\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1558498982\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781558498983\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Massachusetts Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/21\/2011\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 184\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.60lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.90h x 5.90w x 0.50d","brand":"Andrew Stambuk","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":49096982462719,"sku":"9781558498983","price":30.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-man-who-is-and-andrew-stambuk-9781558498983","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}