Bøger af Samuel Hazo

Samuel Hazo is known to the world of letters for his poetry and his fiction, but he's also an incisive and observant essayist. In this collection we meet Hazo the critic, Hazo the observer, Hazo the traveler, Hazo the moralist, and above all Hazo the human being.

Hazo, National Book Award finalist and former State Poet of Pennsylva-nia, transports the reader with poems of both lament and celebration in his sensual new collection. Like a Man Gone Mad features much of the spare yet precise imagery of his earlier work. Searing portraits, a deft use of allegorical language, and a wry sense of humor are all signatures of Hazo's unique voice. Taking up the theme of time, the poems carry the reader back and forth through personal and historical time, offering glimpses of a wide range of figures, from Pascal and Heraclitus to John F. Kennedy and Clark Gable. From each vantage point, Hazo meditates on themes of vitality and longevity, legacy and oblivion, and the enduring folly of both the individual and society. Accessible and eminently readable, the po-ems in Like a Man Gone Mad embody a rich intellectual and emotional curiosity.

A collection of ten 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.

Samuel Hazo's voice is distinctive in contemporary American poetry. In some sixty years of writing, he has produced thirty collections praised by critics and fellow poets. In The Feast of Icarus, this master of the lyric turns to prose poems as he surveys his life and art. In more than a hundred brief blocks of type - each alive with sensation and good sense - Hazo gives voice to a whole life, with all its ordinary love, labor, desire, and grief.

A comprehensive selection from one of America's best loved poets, Samuel Hazo.

For over fifty years, Hazo's poetry has meditated on themes of mortality and love, passion and art, and courage and grace in a style that is unmistakably his own. In this new collection, he offers his most candid reflections on the passage of time and the tenderness of the present moment.

In this work, Hazo casts his eye back over a career devoted to poetry. With works that are arranged loosely under the themes of love, family, and aging, this volume affirms Hazo's status as one of the most compelling and enduring poets of his generation. Poems appearing in this collection include works that have appeared in the Hudson Review, Prairie Schooner, the and the Saturday Review.

A new collection of poems by Samuel Hazo; the majority of which are published here for the first time.

Premier Caseres rules his country with a ruthlessness that puts him in the elite category of Truijillo, Mugabe, and Kim Jong II. A potent orator with a martinet style of leadership, Caseres' ability to instill fear and reverence in his people has secured his place in power. However, the dictator's human frailties run as deep as his stoicism.

With each new collection of poems, Samuel Hazo explores themes of mortality and love, passion and art, courage and grace in a style that is unmistakably his own. In As They Sail, he writes with equal feeling and clarity about political and artistic figures and the complex synchronicity between life and art. He is extremely interested in the wonderment and discovery that emerges in the act of writing, in the movement toward wisdom that results from expression of feeling. Questioning is always more important in his writing than answering. Hazo has the ability to accomplish what he attributes to another poet, Charles Causley, in "When Nothing's Happening, Everything's Happening": ". . . the poems borne of his pen / . . . help us to feel what we think." He is able to achieve this "felt thought" without any trace of self-absorption or sentimentality. Whether Hazo is writing about Nixon, Hemingway, or Brando or simply about walking in France, he finds the essence of language that gives rise to an emotional response. In a time when poetry without emotion is praised and language is said to make sense simply because it exists on the page, Hazo's clear voice and concern with the nature of love, time, change, and the meaning of the past is uniquely refreshing.