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Richard Howard Loves Henry James

Richard Howard

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New York Review Books
19 February 2021
A lauded American poet's tributes to Walt Whitman and Henry James, now collected for the first time.

A lauded American poet's tributes to Walt Whitman and Henry James, now collected for the first time.

Richard Howard has long been recognized as one of America's finest poets, celebrated as an author for his keen engagement with other authors, and especially for his sparkling and trenchant dramatic monologues and two-part inventions. Through the years, Howard has, in this way, given voice to all sorts of historical and literary figures, but two of his favorite subjects are two of his favorite writers-Walt Whitman and Henry James-and this book gathers an array of poems in which he responds to these great gay forebears, as well as to two other beloved Americans, Hart Crane and Wallace Stevens. Here Whitman the good gray poet opens his door to Bram Stoker and to Oscar Wilde; Henry James struggles to take stock of Los Angeles, where he is to have lunch with L. Frank Baum; Edith Wharton reminisces about her fraught friendship with the Master; poor Pansy from The Portrait of a Lady broods on her dreadful father; and late in life Wallace Stevens visits Paris-as Stevens never did. Howard's wonderful inventions are as expansive and celebratory and human as Whitman, as deeply and subtly inquiring as James, as sumptuously meditative as Stevens, and as arresting and delightful as Richard Howard himself.
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Imprint:   New York Review Books
Country of Publication:   United States
Dimensions:   Height: 178mm,  Width: 114mm, 
Weight:   368g
ISBN:   9781681374512
ISBN 10:   168137451X
Pages:   128
Publication Date:  
Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

Richard Howard is a poet, critic, and translator. He has published over 150 translations from the French and nearly twenty volumes of poetry, which often find him speaking through--or to--literary figures ranging from Charles Baudelaire to Oscar Wilde. He is a recipient of numerous awards, including the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, and the PEN Translation Award. He lives in New York City.

Reviews for Richard Howard Loves Henry James

“[Howard] does remarkable impersonations of other figures. But behind it is a kind of meditation about being a person, and how to be a person and become an artist.” —Edward Hirsch, The Paris Review “I think of Richard Howard as a very central figure in our culture, maintaining and giving eloquent voice and illustration to standards that are in peril today.” —Susan Sontag “What seems unarguable . . . is that in the landscape of American poetry no other poet, setting up a homestead for himself, has toiled so diligently to breed such a herd (of poems that take artists as their subject): creatures whose dam is art and whose sire is art.” —Brad Leithauser, The New York Times “Richard’s work in and on behalf of poetry is, precisely, an antidote to hopelessness.” —Craig Morgan Teicher, Los Angeles Review of Books


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