Paper Trail: Selected Prose, 1965-2003 by Richard Howard - 2004

Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2004. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. 1st. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Near Fine Hardcover in a like dust jacket. 434pp including bibliographical notes and index. Here is a selection of his finest essays, including some never before published in book form, on a splendid range of subjects--from American poets like Emily Dickinson and Marianne Moore to French artists such as Rodin and Michel Delacroix. Also included are considerations of modern sculpture and of the photography of the human body. Howard's intense familiarity with modern poetry is seen to excellent effect in essays on the "poetry of forgetting," on the causes and effects of experimental poetry, and on the first books of poets whose work he helped introduce--among them, J. D. McClatchy, Frank Bidart, and Cynthia MacDonald. Of course, Howard brings to his consideration of French literature a rare wisdom drawn from his celebrated work..