{"product_id":"inventions-on-the-brink-essays-paperback-softback-9780807185087","title":"Inventions on the Brink; Essays (Paperback \/ softback) 9780807185087","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eInventions on the Brink\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eEssays\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eJ. T. Barbarese (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780807185087\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 13 November 2025\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e280 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 1.6 cm, 0.402 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003ePraise for J. T. Barbarese \t\u003cbr\u003e \t\"A poet . . . whose perceptions are idiosyncratic, often comically so (especially his seeing), but always insightful and strikingly original.\" \u003cspan style=\"letter-spacing: 0.06em;\"\u003e- \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci style=\"letter-spacing: 0.06em;\"\u003ePrairie Schooner\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan style=\"letter-spacing: 0.06em;\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"letter-spacing: 0.06em;\"\u003e\"The freshness of his language matches perfectly—abets, I should say—the freshness and candor of his world view.\" - David Yezzi\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eInventions on the Brink,\u003c\/i\u003e a collection of literary journalism by J. T. Barbarese, offers engagingly plainspoken and informed essays on American poetry from Edgar Allan Poe to the present, written by a poet with long experience in the classroom. The collection discusses writers as divergent as Walt Whitman and Ezra Pound, Hart Crane and A. R. Ammons, Gerald Stern and John Prine. It includes a separate section of essays examining the craft of translation with attention to specific works translated from ancient Greek, Italian, and modern French. \t\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cbr\u003e \tA distinguishing feature of the book is that it is informed by literary theory but independent of any particular critical modality. Barbarese writes about literature for a general audience, particularly readers with wide tastes interested in engaging with literary art. His essays are the outcome of deeply reading and internalizing work he has known, studied, and admired over the course of a long career of publishing, teaching, and public lecturing.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"LSU Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52551799177496,"sku":"9780807185087","price":22.87,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/inventions-on-the-brink-essays-paperback-softback-9780807185087","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}