Mark Jarman

Mark Jarman is the author of many books of poetry, including The Black Riviera, winner of the 1991 Poets’ Prize, and Questions for Ecclesiastes, winner of the 1998 Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize. He has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. He is Centennial Professor of English, Emeritus, at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee.


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The Secret of Poetry

Mark Jarman

Publication Date: March 15, 2022

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This first collection of literary essays by a founder and leading poet-critic of the New Narrative/New Formalist revival explores the relationship between poetry and religion, the legacies of Wallace Stevens, Robert Frost, E. A. Robinson, Robinson Jeffers, and poetry by contemporaries such as Donald Justice and Jorie Graham.

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Tradepaper: $20 / ISBN: 9781586543617
Casebound: $30 / ISBN: 9781586543594

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The Reaper

Mark Jarman, Robert McDowell

Publication Date: March 1, 1996

$12.00 Tradepaper

ISBN: 1885266219

Description:

This first collection of literary essays by a founder and leading poet-critic of the New
Narrative/New Formalist revival explores the relationship between poetry
and religion, the legacies of Wallace Stevens, Robert Frost, E. A. Robinson, Robinson
Jeffers, and poetry by contemporaries such as Donald Justice and Jorie Graham.

ADVANCE PRAISE

“The religious poem of a believer has a quality of conviction that still resonates with
extraordinary power, especially when one considers the poet has taken to witness,
in effect, in a poetic mode that has passed out of fashion.” Those who consider the
bucking of such trends to be The Secret of Poetry will find Mark Jarman’s essays
and reviews of value. Jarman, who took up the fate of religious verse poetically in
Questions for Ecclesiastes and Unholy Sonnets, here collects his prose statements on
the matter and other poetic questions, along with his assessments of contemporaries
like Jorie Graham, Andrew Hudgins, David Lehman and Alice Fulton, and of
canonical and near-canonical figures from a multitude of eras.”
—Publishers Weekly

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Rebel Angels

Mark Jarman

ISBN: 1-885266-33-2

Description:

This first collection of literary essays by a founder and leading poet-critic of the New Narrative/New Formalist revival explores the relationship between poetry and religion, the legacies of Wallace Stevens, Robert Frost, E. A. Robinson, Robinson Jeffers, and poetry by contemporaries such as Donald Justice and Jorie Graham.

ADVANCE PRAISE

“The religious poem of a believer has a quality of conviction that still resonates with extraordinary power, especially when one considers the poet has taken to witness, in effect, in a poetic mode that has passed out of fashion.” Those who consider the bucking of such trends to be The Secret of Poetry will find Mark Jarman’s essays and reviews of value. Jarman, who took up the fate of religious verse poetically in Questions for Ecclesiastes and Unholy Sonnets, here collects his prose statements on the matter and other poetic questions, along with his assessments of contemporaries like Jorie Graham, Andrew Hudgins, David Lehman and Alice Fulton, and of canonical and near-canonical figures from a multitude of eras.” —Publishers Weekly