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The Stroke of a Pen: Essays on Poetry and Other Provocations

English

By (author): Samuel Hazo

For over five decades, Samuel Hazo has taught his readers about literature and life with generosity and awareness, taking everyday experiences and translating them into songs at once familiar and surprising. In his poetry, fiction, essays, and plays, Hazo, in a style that is unmistakably his own, extols the wonderment and discovery that emerge in the act of writing, in the movement toward wisdom that results from the expression of feeling.

The Stroke of a Pen is a collection of the occasional essays on a variety of subjects, from the relationship between poetry and public speech, to the pursuit of the literary life, to reading within a cultural context governed by power relations. Two essays focus on religion and literature, and the final five include a literary travel essay on Provence, a counterpointing one on the virtues of not traveling but remaining home, a lighter essay that extends the discussion of home to houses, a memory piece on the actor Gregory Peck, and a personal reflection on the author's retirement. Throughout, Hazo is belletristic in his approach, calling on such writers as T. S. Eliot, Wilfred Owen, Jacques Maritain, and Nathan A. Scott, Jr., who deeply influences Hazo's thinking and writing in this entertaining collection.

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Product Details
  • Weight: 227g
  • Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
  • Publication Date: 15 May 2011
  • Publisher: University of Notre Dame Press
  • Publication City/Country: United States
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9780268030940

About Samuel Hazo

Samuel Hazo is the McAnulty Professor of English emeritus at Duquesne University. He is the author of more than thirty books of poetry fiction essays and plays and is the founder and director of the International Poetry Forum in Pittsburgh Pennsylvania.

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