The First Book: Twentieth-Century Poetic Careers in America

by Jesse Zuba

"We have many poets of the First Book," the poet and critic Louis Simpson remarked in 1957, describing a sense that the debut poetry collection not only launched the contemporary poetic career but also had come to define it. Surveying American poetry over the past hundred years, The First Book explores the emergence of the poetic debut as a unique literary production with its own tradition, conventions, and dynamic role in the literary market. Through...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691164479
• ISBN13: 9780691164472
• Release Date: November 2015
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 9.3"