![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() This is a brave and bracing book." - Booklist " a terrific personal essayist, as this new collection illustrates, with the command and instincts of the popular memoirist. The collection's greatest strength comes in general ruminations on the writing, reading and judging poetry." - Publishers Weekly "This weighty first prose collection should inspire wide attention, partly because of Wiman's current job, partly because of his astute insights and partly because he mixes poetry criticism with sometimes shocking memoir. That gift is what makes Ambition and Survival, not just one of the best books of poetry criticism in a generation, but a spiritual memoir of the first order." "That calling, at once religious, ethical, and aesthetic, is one that only a genuine poet can hear-and very few poets can explain it as compellingly as Mr. ![]()
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