Corrupted into Song: The Complete Poems of Alvin Feinman

Paperback / softback

Main Details

Title Corrupted into Song: The Complete Poems of Alvin Feinman
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Alvin Feinman
Edited by Deborah Dorfman
Preface by Harold Bloom
Introduction by James Geary
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback / softback
Pages:168
Dimensions(mm): Height 235,Width 152
Category/GenrePoetry by individual poets
ISBN/Barcode 9780691170534
ClassificationsDewey:811.54
Audience
General

Publishing Details

Publisher Princeton University Press
Imprint Princeton University Press
Publication Date 5 July 2016
Publication Country United States

Description

According to Harold Bloom, "The best of Alvin Feinman's poetry is as good as anything by a twentieth-century American. His work achieves the greatness of the American sublime." Yet, in part because he published so sparsely, Feinman remained little-read and largely unknown when he died in 2008. This definitive edition of Feinman's complete work, whi

Author Biography

Alvin Feinman (1929-2008) taught literature at Bennington College from 1969 to 1994. He was the author of Preambles and Other Poems and an expanded edition of that work, Poems (Princeton). He was born in Brooklyn, New York, and educated at Brooklyn College, the University of Chicago, and Yale University. Feinman's wife, Deborah Dorfman (1934-2015), taught literature at Temple University, Wesleyan University, and SUNY Albany. Harold Bloom is Sterling Professor of the Humanities and English at Yale University. James Geary is deputy curator of the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard University and the author, most recently, of I Is an Other: The Secret Life of Metaphor and How It Shapes the Way We See the World.

Reviews

"These poems do have a strong center, which springs from the speaker's intelligence, his measured rhythms and use of rhyme, and his sometimes detached outlook as he examines the world around him... Feinman's work deserves a broader audience."--Elizabeth Lund, Washington Post "A riveting collection by a poet who deserves to be better known."-- Carol Rumens, The Guardian