The co-op bookstore for avid readers
Book Cover for: James Agee: Selected Poems: (American Poets Project #27), James Agee

James Agee: Selected Poems: (American Poets Project #27)

James Agee

Better known for writing in a variety of other genres, James Agee always thought of himself as essentially a poet. Winner of the Yale Younger Poets competition in 1934 for Permit Me Voyage, Agee was, in the words of editor Andrew Hudgins, "as restless in his poetry as he was later in his prose, exhibiting a variety . . . that we expect from the protean mind that excelled in so many different kinds of writing." Ranging from intense religious sonnets to lyrics for musical comedy, Agee's verse takes us into the heart of his unique genius, what Robert Fitzgerald called his "sense of being . . . a raging awareness of the sensory field in depth and in detail."

About the American Poets Project
Elegantly designed in compact editions, printed on acid-free paper, and textually authoritative, the American Poets Project makes available the full range of the American poetic accomplishment, selected and introduced by today's most discerning poets and critics.

Book Details

  • Publisher: Library of America
  • Publish Date: Oct 2nd, 2008
  • Pages: 200
  • Language: English
  • Edition: undefined - undefined
  • Dimensions: 7.52in - 4.84in - 0.69in - 0.59lb
  • EAN: 9781598530322
  • Recommended age: 18-UP
  • Categories: American - GeneralSubjects & Themes - Death, Grief, LossSubjects & Themes - Inspirational & Religious

More books to explore

Book Cover for: Its Day Being Gone, Rose McLarney

About the Author

Andrew Hudgins, editor, is Humanities Distinguished Professor in English at The Ohio State University. His volumes of poetry include American Rendering: New and Selected Poems (2010), Ecstatic in the Poison (2003); Babylon in a Jar (1998); The Glass Hammer: A Southern Childhood (1994); The Never-Ending: New Poems (1991), a finalist for the National Book Award; After the Lost War: A Narrative (1988), which received the Poetry Prize; and Saints and Strangers (1985), a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. He is also the author of a book of essays, The Glass Anvil (1997).

More books by James Agee

Book Cover for: A Death in the Family, James Agee
Book Cover for: Let Us Now Praise Famous Men: Three Tenant Families, Walker Evans
Book Cover for: The Morning Watch, James Agee
Book Cover for: Brooklyn Is: Southeast of the Island: Travel Notes, James Agee
Book Cover for: A Mountain Among Many, James Agee
Book Cover for: Under The Mountains, James Agee
Book Cover for: James Agee Rediscovered: The Journals for 'Let Us Now Praise Famous Men' and Other New Manuscripts, James Agee
Book Cover for: James Agee: Film Writing and Selected Journalism (Loa #160): Agee on Film / Uncollected Film Writing / The Night of the Hunter / Journalism and Film R, James Agee
Book Cover for: The Letters Of James Agee To Father Flye, James Agee
Book Cover for: Letters of James Agee to Father Flye, James Agee
Book Cover for: Octoshi, James Agee
Book Cover for: Cartas Al Padre Flye, James Agee
Book Cover for: A Pup In Paris, James Agee
Book Cover for: Beneath A Volcano, James Agee
Book Cover for: I Once Knew Everything, James Agee