{"product_id":"corrupted-into-song-the-complete-poems-of-alvin-feinman-9780691170534","title":"Corrupted Into Song: The Complete Poems of Alvin Feinman","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA definitive edition that introduces a major American poet to a new generation of readers\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAccording to Harold Bloom, \"The best of Alvin Feinman's poetry is as good as anything by a twentieth-century American. His work achieves the greatness of the American sublime.\" Yet, in part because he published so sparsely, Feinman remained little-read and largely unknown when he died in 2008. This definitive edition of Feinman's complete work, which includes fifty-seven previously published poems and thirty-nine unpublished poems discovered among his manuscripts, introduces a new generation of readers to the lyrical intensity and philosophical ambition of this major American poet. Harold Bloom, a lifelong friend of Feinman, provides a preface in which he examines Feinman's work in the context of the strongest poets of his generation--John Ashbery, James Merrill, and A. R. Ammons--while the introduction by James Geary, who studied with Feinman at Bennington College, presents a biographical and critical sketch of this remarkable poet and teacher. \u003ci\u003eCorrupted into Song\u003c\/i\u003e restores Feinman's work to its rightful place alongside that of poets like Hart Crane and Wallace Stevens, with whom his poetry and poetics have so much in common.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAlvin Feinman\u003c\/b\u003e (1929-2008) taught literature at Bennington College from 1969 to 1994. He was the author of \u003ci\u003ePreambles and Other Poems\u003c\/i\u003e and an expanded edition of that work, \u003ci\u003ePoems\u003c\/i\u003e (Princeton). He was born in Brooklyn, New York, and educated at Brooklyn College, the University of Chicago, and Yale University. Feinman's wife, \u003cb\u003eDeborah Dorfman\u003c\/b\u003e (1934-2015), taught literature at Temple University, Wesleyan University, and SUNY Albany. \u003cb\u003eHarold Bloom\u003c\/b\u003e (1930-2019) was Sterling Professor of the Humanities and English at Yale University. \u003cb\u003eJames Geary\u003c\/b\u003e is deputy curator of the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard University and the author, most recently, of \u003ci\u003eI Is an Other: The Secret Life of Metaphor and How It Shapes the Way We See the World\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Princeton University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50503683277074,"sku":"9780691170534","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_0047e207-82aa-4646-862b-10f6800d755a.jpg?v=1730795564","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/corrupted-into-song-the-complete-poems-of-alvin-feinman-9780691170534","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}