Discusses the themes, techniques, syntax, and imagery of Lowell's poetry, and provides background information about his major poems

Robert Lowell: An Introduction to the Poetry

Literature & Fiction

Rudman, Mark

Poetry

Columbia Univ. Pr.

Crisis, breakdown, rejuvenation: this is the territory of poetry that Rudman takes readers into with this set of essays. Constructed as a series of character studies, the essays are rooted in autobiographical material with biographical counterpoints, tying the poets distinctly to places. Even as they are placed, however, they are displaced: Rudman's subjects, from D.H. Lawrence to Czeslaw Milosz to T. S. Eliot, are almost all exiles, either geographically or within themselves. This exile spins anger into energy, transmuting emotion into imagination the same way that Passaic Falls, known to William Carlos Williams, turns water into power. The mosaic style of the essays touches on nerve after nerve, avoiding the snags of academic jargon to ease towards an illuminating truth about the artists' shifting work and worlds. Some of the Samuels--Beckett and Fuller--were able to navigate these shifts, while others--Coleridge and Johnson--are shown to be less able to transmute their energy into motion.

The Book of Samuel: Essays on Poetry and Imagination

Essays & Correspondence

Northwestern University Press

Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry (1995) Mark Rudman –; poet, essayist, translator, and teacher –; has consistently pursued questions of human relationship and identity, and in Rider he takes the poetry of autobiography and confessional to a new plane. In a polyphonic narrative that combines verse with lyrical prose and often humorous dialogue, Rudman examines his own coming-of-age through the lens of his relationships with his grandfather, father, step-father, and son. These memories emerge against the background of a family history anchored in the traditions of Judaism and the culture of the diaspora.

Rider: The Rider Quintet, vol. 1 (Wesleyan Poetry Series)

Wesleyan University Press

Powerful meditations on the nature and limits of human understanding.

Realm of Unknowing: Meditations on Art, Suicide, and Other Transformations

Mark Rudman - poet, essayist, translator, and teacher - has consistently pursued questions of human relationship and identity, and in Rider he takes the poetry of autobiography and confessional to a new plane. In a polyphonic narrative that combines verse with lyrical prose and often humorous dialogue, Rudman examines his own coming-of-age through the lens of his relationships with his grandfather, father, step-father, and son. These memories emerge against the background of a family history anchored in the traditions of Judaism and the culture of the diaspora.

United States

vi 186p green cloth, as new, volume of poems

The Millennium Hotel (Wesleyan Poetry Series)

In this captivating sequel to his award-winning Rider, Mark Rudman reclaims a sacred space for poetry. The Millennium Hotel is a world of dazzling imitations, a vast casino where personal narrative is recognized as a fiction and death always holds the winning hand. Rudman asks, "How not to be seduced by the new?" as he illustrates the intimate ways in which facade, gender, and memory inform both our private and public realms. Here the interlocutor's voice shifts and freely crosses gender lines, especially in poems about early erotic experience. Mothers, daughters, lovers, and wives are passionately engaged. Its inclusiveness and wide range of tonal registers enable The Millennium Hotel to blend seamlessly the intimate, the social, the comic, and the apocalyptic. The book moves like a series of sonatas, melding childhood, the diaspora, and eros.

The Millennium Hotel: The Rider Quintet, vol. 2 (Wesleyan Poetry Series)

The third volume in a trilogy that includes the award-winning Rider and Millennium Hotel.

Provoked in Venice: The Rider Quintet, vol. 3 (Wesleyan Poetry Series)

In these powerfully conceived and understated poems, Mark Rudman asks how culture is created and shared, and how historical events and figures are known through direct experiences of place. The title Provoked in Venice alludes to the structure of the book, wherein a trip to Italy becomes the catalyst for a meditative view of the convergence of imagination, history, and the 20th-century attempt to recover them both. The narrator enters the maze of Venice like a contemporary Dante guided only by the voice of the "rider"-interlocuter. Rich in allusions to literature, film, and the past, this final volume of the trilogy will engage and sustain all mental travelers.

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Books by Rudman, Mark

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Robert Lowell: An Introduction to the Poetry

The Book of Samuel: Essays on Poetry and Imagination

Rider: The Rider Quintet, vol. 1 (Wesleyan Poetry Series)

Realm of Unknowing: Meditations on Art, Suicide, and Other Transformations

Rider: The Rider Quintet, vol. 1 (Wesleyan Poetry Series)

Realm of Unknowing: Meditations on Art, Suicide, and Other Transformations

The Millennium Hotel (Wesleyan Poetry Series)

The Millennium Hotel: The Rider Quintet, vol. 2 (Wesleyan Poetry Series)

Provoked in Venice: The Rider Quintet, vol. 3 (Wesleyan Poetry Series)

Provoked in Venice: The Rider Quintet, vol. 3 (Wesleyan Poetry Series)