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100 1 $aBirkerts, Sven.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n86115535
245 10 $aReadings /$cSven Birkerts.
260 $aSaint Paul, Minn. :$bGraywolf Press,$c1999.
300 $a263 pages ;$c24 cm
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505 00 $tThe Millennial Warp --$tAmerican Nostalgias --$tSense and Semblance: The Implications of Virtuality --$tThe Idea of the Internet --$tWalking after Midnight --$tOnly God Can Make a Tree --$tReflections of a Nonpolitical Man; or, Why I Can't in Good Conscience Write about Noam Chomsky --$tAn Open Invitation to Extraterrestrials --$tBiography and the Dissolving Self --$tThe Grasshopper on the Windowsill --$tStates of Reading --$tAgainst the Current --$tReading and Depth of Field --$tDocufiction --$t"Poetry" and "Politics" --$tRunning Out of Gas --$tSecond Thoughts --$tThis Year's Canon --$tWhen Lightning Strikes --$tOn a Stanza by John Keats --$tRainer Maria Rilke --$tRobert Lowell --$tSeamus Heaney --$tAtmospheres of Identity: Elizabeth Bishop --$tThe Leaning Umbrella: A Reflection on Flaubert --$tA Gatsby for Today --$tJack Kerouac --$tDestinies of Character --$tDon DeLillo's Underworld.
520 $aReadings combines the best of Sven Birkerts's dazzling criticism with vital new essays. Here is Birkerts the literary critic in top form discussing authors ranging from Elizabeth Bishop to Don DeLillo, and topics such as biography and the enigma of poetic inspiration. A brilliant cultural commentator, Birkerts also offers important insights into contemporary nostalgia, our modern sense of time, and the future of the creative spirit.
650 0 $aLiterature, Modern$y20th century$xHistory and criticism.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85077561
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