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Trying it out in America : literary and other performances

As the title of his new book suggests, Richard Poirier believes that the United States has been uncommonly hospitable to literary and artistic experimentation, to innovation and daring. Just as the nation likes to imagine itself as always in a state of becoming and renewal, some of its greatest writers have seemed willing to accept a measure of neglect during their lifetimes in return for the promise of posthumous triumph
Print Book, English, 1999
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York, 1999
Aufsatzsammlung
xvi, 310 pages ; 22 cm
9780374279417, 9780374529185, 0374279411, 0374529183
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Marianne Moore: accurate gusto
Elusive Whitman
Reaching Frank O'Hara
Balanchine in America
The hidden T.S. Eliot
Allusive pop: Bette Midler in concert
Erasing America
Baudrillard's America deserta
Martin Amis's inferno
Peter Conrad's confusions
Vidal's American empire
The case of Arthur Inman
Is there an American manhood?
Gertrude Stein: "Manly Agitations"
"Are they my poor?": Emerson's Steinian question
In cold ink: Truman Capote
Mailer's strangest book
In praise of vagueness: Henry and William James
Melville's vanity of failure
Whitman: the end game