In the caveat to this irreverent and hilarious satire, Clay Reynolds writes, No poet writing today could be this lucky, this tragic, this infamous. Indeed, it wouldn't be tolerated. No, one will have to admit, it wouldn't. Offered in the same vein as Jane Smiley's Moo and Richard Russo's Straight Man, Reynolds's Ars Poetica explores the life of a modern-day Don Juan, a hedonistically ambitious poetaster of our own times, a self-styled Lothario, but, as the tragicomedy ultimately reveals, a man who ultimately discovers that he has more in common with Coleridge's mariner than with any swashbuckling versifier of old. At times a light-hearted romp through the wasteland world of contemporary creative writing where only the phony seem to survive and prosper, at times a vicious attack on the hypocrisy of political correctness and contemporary sexual mores, and at times a sordid slog through the back alleys of a single soul's despair, Ars Poetica evolves as a parable of a passionate poet in a postmodern world, one fraught with the perils of pretense and one that offers meaningful achievement only at the price of the poetic soul.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Texas Review Press
ISBN-13
9781881515487
eBay Product ID (ePID)
104834990
Product Key Features
Book Title
Ars Poetica
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Books
Publication Year
2003
Author
Not Available
Number of Pages
296 Pages
Additional Product Features
Country/Region of Manufacture
United States
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