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The Woman on the Bridge. ...: Poetry

Allen Grossman

The Woman on the Bridge over the Chicago River is Allen Grossman's first collection with New Directions. His voice is astonishingly contemporary, his often dissociated imagery bordering on the surreal--yet one hears in his verse classical and Biblical echoes and, on occasion, darker medieval undertones. The brilliance of his imagination works against a measured eloquence, setting up a fine-edged tension not unlike the prophetic verse of William Blake, the wild dithyrambs of David, or the more controlled metrics of Catullus and Villon.

Book Details

  • Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
  • Publish Date: May 17th, 1979
  • Pages: 82
  • Language: English
  • Edition: undefined - undefined
  • Dimensions: 8.00in - 5.00in - 1.00in - 0.52lb
  • EAN: 9780811207140
  • Categories: American - General

About the Author

Grossman, Allen: - Allen Grossman was born in 1932 in Minneapolis, Minnesota. His awards and honors include a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Witter Brynner Prize for Poetry, and a MacArthur Fellowship. He was professor of English at Brandeis University and the Andrew W. Mellon Professor of the Humanities at the Johns Hopkins University.