Ego is Always at the Wheel: Bagatelles

by Delmore Schwartz

Book Overview

Drawn from the poet's collected papers at Yale University, these humorous essays touch on topics including taking baths and the meaning of existentialism, the abominations of the telephone, theories... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0811209830
• ISBN13: 9780811209830
• Release Date: January 1986
• Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
• Length: 146 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.6" x 8.3"

Customer Reviews

Delmore is the American writer linking Eliot and the Beats

Marilyn Monroe, baseball, youthful brothers-in-law and the difficulty of approaching esteemed poets in the streets - these Bagatelles are telling, charmed, staged yet innocent. Delmore is the man.