A01=James Baker Hall
artistic integrity
Author_James Baker Hall
bravado of a Hemingway hero
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commercial success
complex character
dark
Dream Songs persona
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fidelity
friendship
greed
Kurtz
literary erudition and despair of Berryman's
lust
pantheon of American literary characters
Paul Praeder
self-destructive magnetism of Conrad's Captain
story of lost moral compass
Product details
- ISBN 9781889330808
- Weight: 382g
- Dimensions: 162 x 236mm
- Publication Date: 14 Nov 2002
- Publisher: Sarabande Books, Incorporated
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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Paul Praeder—an immensely complex character with the bravado of a Hemingway hero, the literary erudition and despair of Berryman’s Dream Songs persona, and the dark, self-destructive magnetism of Conrad’s Captain Kurtz—is a new and disturbing addition to the pantheon of American literary characters. His story unfolds over his 30-year correspondence with a young poet, and it is a story of lost moral compass, in which artistic integrity is traded for commercial success, and friendship and fidelity fall to lust and greed.
James Baker Hall is currently the Poet Laureate of Kentucky.
