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Simon & Schuster
September 2009
On Sale: September 8, 2009
256 pages
ISBN: 1416572449
EAN: 9781416572442
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The Anthologist is narrated by Paul Chowder -- a
once-in-a-while-published kind of poet who is writing the
introduction to a new anthology of poetry. He's having a
hard time getting started because his career is floundering,
his girlfriend Roz has recently left him, and he is thinking
about the great poets throughout history who have suffered
far worse and deserve to feel sorry for themselves. He has
also promised to reveal many wonderful secrets and tips and
tricks about poetry, and it looks like the introduction will
be a little longer than he'd thought. What unfolds is a wholly entertaining and beguiling love
story about poetry: from Tennyson, Swinburne, and Yeats to
the moderns (Roethke, Bogan, Merwin) to the staff of The New
Yorker, what Paul reveals is astonishing and makes one
realize how incredibly important poetry is to our lives. At
the same time, Paul barely manages to realize all of this
himself, and the result is a tenderly romantic, hilarious,
and inspired novel.
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