{"product_id":"words-to-create-a-world-daniel-hoffman-9780472065059","title":"Words to Create a World","description":"\u003ci\u003eWords to Create a World \u003c\/i\u003ecollects interviews, essays, and reviews by distinguished poet, critic, and literary historian Daniel Hoffman. The book begins with the text of his inaugural address as Consultant in Poetry for the Library of Congress, in which Hoffman examines the stylistic revolution that signaled the birth of modernism. The final essay, \"Wings of a Phoenix?\", examines the possibilities for poetry in this postmodern era. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Between these are discussions of books by and about founding modernists (Pound, Moore, Sitwell, Frost, Graves, Auden) who do not \"succumb to the imitative fallacy and gibber at the window because the house is on fire.\" Hoffman's historical imagination elucidates the work of many other contemporary American and British poets, including his own. Words to Create a World will appeal to the reader who enjoys poetry and who hopes for guidance over the sprawling terrain of verse in the twentieth century. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Daniel Hoffman\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 047206505X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780472065059\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 04\/05\/1993\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 312\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.87lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.90h x 5.20w x 0.90d","brand":"Daniel Hoffman","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":49096682832127,"sku":"9780472065059","price":29.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/words-to-create-a-world-daniel-hoffman-9780472065059","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}