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Distinguished poet and novelist Jay Parini presents some of his best essays—both classic and unpublished works—on topics ranging from baseball to Frost and Emerson to the culture of creative writing. For aspiring writers, Some Necessary Angels is an illuminating glimpse into the workshop of a distinguished novelist and critic. For readers who share Parini's love of language, it is an invigorating expression of faith.
Price: $110.00
Pages: 288
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Imprint: Columbia University Press
Publication Date:
20 January 1998
ISBN: 9780231110709
Format: Hardcover
BISACs:
LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General
Parini's prose, like his poetry, is fluid and generous. As a working poet, he is able to distill to its essences his subjects'work. These essays are imminently approachable.
Jay Parini is Axinn Professor of English at Middlebury College. A former Guggenheim Fellow and visiting fellow at Christ Church College, Oxford, Parini has published four volumes of poetry, five novels (including The Last Station and Benjamin's Crossing), a critical study of Theodore Roethke, and biographies of John Steinbeck and Robert Frost. The latter won the Chicago Tribune Heartland Award for the best work of nonfiction in 1999. He has also edited numerous volumes, including The Norton Anthology of American Autobiography, The Columbia Anthology of American Poetry, and The Columbia History of American Poetry.