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Portrait of a Father
One of America's great poets writes of his father, lost through death and discovered again through insistent recollection. A death in the family forces a re-sorting and reshaping of all that we can recall of times and people gone from us as we measure our identities by their remembered images. While prowling in the past, Warren is drawn to likenesses between himself and his father, between himself and others of his family. The poet finds that his father too, in his long silent youth, ventured
Book Details
- Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
- Publish Date: May 19th, 1998
- Pages: 96
- Language: English
- Edition: undefined - undefined
- Dimensions: 8.84in - 5.78in - 0.77in - 0.90lb
- EAN: 9780813116556
- Categories: • Literary Figures• Memoirs
About the Author
Warren, Robert Penn: - Robert Penn Warren (1905-1989), born in Guthrie, Kentucky, was one of America's most revered writers, producing fiction, poetry, history, and criticism, much of it focusing on the moral dilemmas of the South. He served as America's first poet laureate. He received the Pulitzer Prize three times, for his novel All the King's Men and for his books of poetry Promises: Poems 1954-1956 and Now and Then. He is also the author of Jefferson Davis Gets His Citizenship Back and The Cave.
Praise for this book
"In this beautiful, elegiac essay, Warren examines his father's life. Like archaeological findings, clues emerge on the nature of this man as the poet recalls moments shared with his father or receives new evidence from a letter or possession." -- Booklist
"Not simply what its author remembers of his roots in small-town and rural Kentucky, but an account of all fathers as imperfectly seen by sons." -- Philadelphia Enquirer