Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Myers, D. G. (David Gershom)

Titel

Between Stories

Ist Teil von

• Philosophy and literature, 1998-10, Vol.22 (2), p.457-467

Ort / Verlag

Dearborn, Mich: Johns Hopkins University Press

Erscheinungsjahr

1998

Quelle

Project MUSE: Universal journals

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• According to Gass, the corpse had been cremated. Charlie Haas, a witty but brutally unkind young poet from New York (he ended up in Hollywood); his confederate Joshua Baer, a tall condescending poet of no apparent talent who immediately snagged the best-looking girl in the college, obliging her to walk three paces behind him because he'd heard that his revered Ezra Pound did the same (he married her and disappeared from literary view); John Kucich, a darkly brilliant lapsed Catholic from the Bay Area who wrote lovely autobiographical stories before abandoning a distinguished prose for tenured radicalism (he became a Victorianist at Ann Arbor); Robert McDowell, a poet who developed slowly from impenetrable obscurity to verse and criticism of sharp intelligence (he quit academe to found Story Line Press, leading publisher of the New Narrative poetry); and Mark Jarman, the best of us, a preacher's kid and ex-football player who reflected upon his Southern California upbringing in lines of a formal and thematic complexity unusual among college students (a professor at Vanderbilt, he is perhaps the best narrative poet now writing).