Afterwork : essays on literature and beauty by Compton, Anne, 1947- author instant download

Afterwork : essays on literature and beauty by Compton, Anne, 1947- author instant download

335 pages ; 23 cm, \"From Governor-General's Award-winning poet Anne Compton, a brilliant, stylish, and provocative book of essays, responding to patterns, overlaps, and tensions in present-day literature and thought. Compton considers here how the writer changes in retirement; the obsession with the house in contemporary fiction; the role of place in poetry; the relationship between poetry and the visual arts; and beauty.\"--, Includes bibliographical references (pages 323-333), 1. Having supper with Charlie Rose, or the first sumer of retirement -- 2. How does the house mean? -- 3. The dinningroom, a coda to the house -- 4. Local work : The poetics of place -- 5. Wherefrom : How poems start up, a conversation -- 6. Poems for paintings -- 7. Beauty : A novelist, a poet, and some science -- 8. The Poet and her library : anthologies read, anthologies made -- 9. The Listener -- Work cited