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Something Said


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For over four decades, Gilbert Sorrentino has produced brilliant, penetrating essays and reviews, each one an uncompromising statement of what is good—and what is not—in literature and culture. Something Said collects in a single volume these definitive readings of such major twentieth-century innovators as William Carlos Williams, William Gaddis, Italo Calvino, John Hawkes, and Robert Creeley, along with critical writings on film, pop culture, and visual art.

This expanded edition includes twenty-five pieces written since the publication of the first edition in 1984.

Details

ISBN-10 1-56478-310-3
ISBN-13 9781564783103
Publication Date Nov 2001
Nb of pages 376
Dimensions 6 x 9 in.

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Reviews

Press Reviews

New York Times
Sorrentino brings the experience of his own imaginative writing to his readings of other people's books, and thus writes with more understanding than critics who are not themselves poets or fiction writers . . . I recommend his book to all readers.

Best Sellers
Because of his taste for the critically ignored writer, the undervalued and misassessed, Sorrentino gives us a Baedeker to the poets and novelists who should be read but usually are not.

Booklist
Never does he let personality or reputation swerve him from his dedicated attention to the texts themselves.

Los Angeles Times
Something Said is one of those rare collections where the reader finds himself underlining much he wants to remember.

Kirkus
Independent, appealingly headstrong, sophisticated yet anti-academic criticism—at its best when tackling William Carlos Williams and other thornily American poets.



Quotations

One test of a critic is skill at detecting the unpublicized, and here Sorrentino especially shines . . . If I were a poet, he's the man I'd want to be reviewed by.
-Hugh Kenner

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Genres : Nonfiction, Biographies and Memoirs : Essays and Commentary
Countries : United States of America


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