Dance Writings and Poetry

✍ Scribed by Edwin Denby (editor); Robert Cornfield (editor)

Publisher: Yale University Press
Year: 2008
Tongue: English
Leaves: 336
Category: Library

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Synopsis

Edwin Denby, who died in 1983, was the most important and influential American dance critic of this century. His reviews and essays, which he wrote for almost thirty years, were possessed of a voice, vision, and passion as compelling and inspiring as his subject. He was also a poet of distinctiona friend to Frank O'Hara, James Schuyler, and John Ashbery. This book presents a sampling of his reviews, essays, and poems, an exemplary collection that exhibits the elegance, lucidity, and timelessness of Denby's writings.

The volume includes Denby's reactions to choreography ranging from Martha Graham to George Balanchine to the Rockettes, as well as his reflections on such general topics as dance in film, dance criticism, and meaning in dance.Denbys writings are presented chronologically, and they not only provide a picture of how his dance theories and reviewing methods evolved but also give an informal history of dance in New York from the late 1930s to the early 1960s. The bookthe only collection of Denby's writings currently in printis an essential resource for students and lovers of dance.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents
Biographical Note
The Thirties: An Essay
Poems
Dance Writings
Bibliography of Denby’s Writings
Index

📜 SIMILAR VOLUMES

Reading and Writing Poetry

📁 Reading and Writing Poetry

✍ Halperin W.R. 📂 Library 🌐 English

[The Recommendations of Noted Poets from Many Lands on the Teaching of Poetry in Secondary Schools ]. - PARIS : UNESCO, 2005. - 73 p. This booklet is mainly intended for use in teacher training programmes, to bring to methods of teaching poetry two important dimensions: the creative perspective of p

Poetry and Language Writing: Objective a

📁 Poetry and Language Writing: Objective and Surreal (LUP - Poetry and)

✍ David Arnold 📂 Library 📅 2008 🏛 Liverpool University Press 🌐 English

Language Poetry, Language Writing, L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E writing—no matter the moniker, the impact of the movement and its particular pedigree of theory-conscious poetics, postmodern aesthetics, and non-academic stance cannot be denied. In this timely volume, David Arnold not only provides a means for com

Writing Poetry

📁 Writing Poetry

✍ John Whitworth 📂 Library 📅 2006 🏛 A & C Black Publishers Ltd 🌐 English

Writing Poetry

📁 Writing Poetry

✍ John Whitworth 📂 Library 📅 2006 🌐 English

This is a positive, practical handbook packed with advice, exercises and information. Beginning with a definition of what makes poetry, the author goes on to describe the different forms, how and what to start writing, finding an audience, and getting published. John Whitworth encourages the poet to

📁 music and poety sweet poetry

📂 Library 🌐 English

Poetry and language writing : objective

📁 Poetry and language writing : objective and surreal

✍ David D. Arnold 📂 Library 📅 2007 🏛 Liverpool University Press 🌐 English

It has been variously labelled 'Language Poetry', 'Language Writing', 'L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E writing' (after the magazine that ran from 1978 to 1981), and 'language-centred writing'. It has been placed according to its geographical positions, on East or West coasts; its venues in small magazines, independ