Synthesizing Gravity: Selected Prose
By Kay Ryan
()
Currently unavailable
Currently unavailable
About this ebook
The first-ever collection of essays by one of our most distinguished and distinctive poets, Pulitzer Prize-winner and former Poet Laureate of the United States, Kay Ryan
Synthesizing Gravity gathers for the first time a thirty-year selection of Kay Ryan’s probings into aesthetics, poetics, and the mind in pursuit of art.
A bracing collection of critical prose, book reviews, and her private previously unpublished soundings of poems and poets— including Robert Frost, Stevie Smith, Marianne Moore, William Bronk, and Emily Dickinson— Synthesizing Gravity bristles with Ryan’s crisp wit, her keen off-kilter insights, and her appetite and appreciation for the genuine. Among essays like “Radiantly Indefensible,” “Notes on the Danger of Notebooks,” and “The Abrasion of Loneliness,” are piquant pieces on the virtues of emptiness, forgetfulness and other under-loved concepts. Edited and with an introduction by Christian Wiman, this generous collection of Ryan’s distinctive thinking gives us a surprising look into the mind of an American master.
Read more from Kay Ryan
Erratic Facts Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Elephant Rocks: Poems Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Say Uncle Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Synthesizing Gravity: Selected Prose Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Niagara River Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5
Related to Synthesizing Gravity
Related ebooks
How We Speak to One Another Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsWhen the Heart Needs a Stunt Double Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Apple That Astonished Paris: Poems Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5When We Were Birds: Poems Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsTo Be Named Something Else Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsA Story Larger than My Own: Women Writers Look Back on Their Lives and Careers Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Alphabet Not Unlike the World: Poems Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsLight While There Is Light: An American History Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5All the Fierce Tethers Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsNow It's Dark Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Borderlands and Crossroads: Writing the Motherland Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsPoems 1918-21: Including Three Portraits and Four Cantos Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsRerun Era Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsOn Looking: Essays Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Idiophone: An Essay Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Acts of Mind: Conversations with Contemporary Poets Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5Hinge & Sign: Poems, 1968–1993 Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5King Baby Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Winter's Journey Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Shimmers in the Night: A Novel Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Collected Poems Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Essential Muriel Rukeyser: Poems Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsHorses Where the Answers Should Have Been: New and Selected Poems Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Branch Will Not Break: Poems Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Dear America: Letters of Hope, Habitat, Defiance, and Democracy Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsProxies: Essays Near Knowing Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Approaching Disappearance Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsMesmerizingly Sadly Beautiful Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsRobeson Street Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Melting Season Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratings
Composition & Creative Writing For You
Better Grammar in 30 Minutes a Day Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5THE EMOTIONAL WOUND THESAURUS: A Writer's Guide to Psychological Trauma Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Rewrite Your Life: Discover Your Truth through the Healing Power of Fiction Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Negative Trait Thesaurus: A Writer's Guide to Character Flaws Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5101 Best Sex Scenes Ever Written: An Erotic Romp Through Literature for Writers and Readers Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Emotion Thesaurus (Second Edition): A Writer's Guide to Character Expression Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Creative Journal: The Art of Finding Yourself: 35th Anniversary Edition Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Craft of Research, Fourth Edition Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Legal Writing in Plain English: A Text with Exercises Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Wonderbook: The Illustrated Guide to Creating Imaginative Fiction Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Wordslut: A Feminist Guide to Taking Back the English Language Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Plot Whisperer Book of Writing Prompts: Easy Exercises to Get You Writing Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Writing Fiction: A Guide to Narrative Craft Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Writing to Learn: How to Write - and Think - Clearly About Any Subject at All Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5How to Write a Mystery: A Handbook from Mystery Writers of America Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5How to Read Poetry Like a Professor: A Quippy and Sonorous Guide to Verse Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Write Useful Books: A modern approach to designing and refining recommendable nonfiction Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Science of Storytelling: Why Stories Make Us Human and How to Tell Them Better Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Letters to a Young Poet Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Elements of Style, Fourth Edition Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Zen in the Art of Writing Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Writing to Wake the Soul: Opening the Sacred Conversation Within Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Everything Writing Poetry Book: A Practical Guide To Style, Structure, Form, And Expression Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5People, Places, Things: My Human Landmarks Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Take Off Your Pants! Outline Your Books for Faster, Better Writing (Revised Edition) Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5
Reviews for Synthesizing Gravity
0 ratings0 reviews