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Ancient Salt: Essays on Poets, Poetry, and the Modern World
Ancient Salt: Essays on Poets, Poetry, and the Modern World
Ancient Salt: Essays on Poets, Poetry, and the Modern World
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Andrew Frisardi's essays in Ancient Salt are about several modern and contemporary poets--British, American, and Italian. Frisardi offers close readings of these poets, and considers their work in light of the challenges of living and writing amid the extraordinary transformations of the modern era. Some of the poets are religious, some are agnostic or perhaps atheist, but all of them articulate a human-poetic response to modernity: its pluralism, mobility, scientific discoveries, innovations, and unprecedented global awareness; as well as its rootlessness, fragmentation, dehumanizing mechanization, materialism, environmental catastrophes, and even systematic genocide. The subjects of the essays are Scottish poet Edwin Muir (1887-1959); Italian modernist Giuseppe Ungaretti (1888-1970); Irish poet W. B. Yeats (1865-1939); Welsh poet Vernon Watkins (1906-1968); English poet and Blake scholar Kathleen Raine (1908-2003); English poet-editor Peter Russell (1921-2003); American poet and Alaskan homesteader John Haines (1924-2011); English poet Richard Berengarten (formerly Burns) (1943-); and American poet-critic David Mason (1954-).
Frisardi's accessible style and extensive knowledge of the thought and learning of these poets as well as of the craft of poetry makes these essays substantial nourishment for poetry lovers and students.
LanguageEnglish
Release dateJul 12, 2022
ISBN9781666739183
Ancient Salt: Essays on Poets, Poetry, and the Modern World
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Andrew Frisardi

Andrew Frisardi is a writer, translator, editor, and critic who lives in Italy. His books include The Harvest and the Lamp (2020); Love’s Scribe: Reading Dante in the Book of Creation (2020); and annotated translations of Dante’s pre-Comedy works the Vita nova (2012) and the Convivio (2018). He is a Guggenheim fellow as well as a fellow of the Temenos Academy in London.

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