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Irv Broughton is the author of ten books and is a major chronicler of American life and experience. He is widely recognized for his interviews with distinguished writers, famous producers, and everyday folks. With degrees from Florida State University and Hollins College (now University), Broughton mostrar mais lives in Spokane, Washington with his wife, Connie, and their three children, McKenzie, Sayer and Callie mostrar menos

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ESPN (2004) 53 cópias

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56. A Good Man : Fathers and Sons in Poetry and Prose edited by Irv Broughton
published: 1993
format: 290 page hardcover
acquired: from a downsizing neighbor (and poet)
read: Dec 24-31
rating: 4

List of all 83 contributors:
Massimo Taparelli A'Azeglio, Sherman Alexie, John Alexander Allen, Sherwood Anderson, Robert Bagg, Richard Blessing, David Bottoms, Irv Broughton, Michael Dennis Browne, Robert Olen Butler, Lewis Carroll, Raymond Carver, Fred Chappell, Alan Cheuse, Robert P. Tristram Coffin, e.e. Cummings, Peter Davidson, James Dickey, George Garrett, Paul S. George, Brewster Ghiselin, Robert Gibb, Gary Gildner, Herbert Gold, Donald Hall, Robert Hayden, Samuel Hazo, Ernest Hemmingway, Bill Henderson, Norman Hindley, David Huddle, Andrew Hudgins, William Humphrey, Richard Jones, Donald Justice, Galway Kinnell, Claude Koch, Ted Kooser, Stanley Kunitz, Greg Kuzma, Philip Levine, Thomas Lynch, Guy de Maupassant, James J. McAuley, Peter Meinke, W. S. Merwin, John N. Morris, Howard Moss, Pablo Neruda, Lewis Nordan, Frank O'Connor, Keith Orchard, Peter Oresick, Simon J. Ortiz, Coventry Patmore, Sir Walter Raleigh, Thomas Reiter, Theodore Roethke, Gamble Rogers, Stephen Sandy, Jonathan Schwartz, Richard Shelton, Stephen Shu-ning Liu, Louis Simpson, William Jay Smith, Matthew J. Spireng, William Stafford, Lucien Stryk, James Tate, Henry Taylor, Dylan Thomas, John Updike, Robert Penn Warren, Jerome Weidman, Tom Whalen, John Hall Wheelock, Miller Williams, Clive Wilmer, Thomas Wolfe, Geoffrey Wolff, David Wright, James Wright, Paul Zimmer

A collection of really high quality if sometimes obscure poetry and very short stories or personal essays with a strong poetic feel. The contributions range in eras and many could not have been that easy to find. A handful of classics or classic authors, some gems from earlier (and throughout) the 20th century, but many were originally published in the 1970's & 1980's. A significant portion are from 1990-1992, and I think this period defines the feel. Broughton was very attuned to the American literary feel of this era, and back cover flap tells his previous book was a collection of interviews of American authors. He put a lot of effort in this selection.

The affect on me of this collection was along the lines of that of a literary magazine, with the notable differences in the consistent high end sense and reward and that it is all, entirely, 100% male—male authors writing about men and boys and themselves, with limited references of moms, daughters, sisters, girlfriends and few, if any, other women.

The contributions are grouped into sections and the opening section was my favorite, and struck me with the strong characterizations, and another favorite section was called "Beautiful Dreams, Vicious Realities". Particularly memorable entries include an opening poem by James Wright titled Father (which I posted in the 2017 CR poetry thread), and great entries by Sherwood Anderson, James J. McAuley, Frank O'Connor, Samuel Hazo, Stephen Sandy, with a beautiful poem on a new born baby, Robert Hayden, Donald Hall, Sherman Alexie (who couldn't have been well known then), Greg Kuzma, Paul Zimmer, Miller Williams, Robert Olen Butler (from is 1993 Pulitzer Prize winning novel, [A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain]), Stanely Kunitz, Peter Davison, Donald Justice and so on. I encountered many of these authors for the first time.

It's probably not a book to read straight through, although I did that and got a little overwhelmed maybe, but a rewarding book for poetry readers.

2017
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Gary Gildner Contributor
Peter Meinke Contributor
Jonathan Schwartz Contributor
Henry Taylor Contributor
Brewster Ghiselin Contributor
Robert Hayden Contributor
William Jay Smith Contributor
Paul Zimmer Contributor
Samuel Hazo Contributor
Louis Simpson Contributor
Greg Kuzma Contributor
Keith Orchard Contributor
Gamble Rogers Contributor
Norman Hindley Contributor
Thomas Reiter Contributor
Claude Koch Contributor
James J. McAuley Contributor
Clive Wilmer Contributor
Ernest Hemmingway Contributor
Tom Whalen Contributor
Peter Oresick Contributor
Matthew J. Spireng Contributor
Sir Walter Raleigh Contributor
Coventry Patmore Contributor
Stephen Sandy Contributor
John Hall Wheelock Contributor
John N. Morris Contributor
Alan Cheuse Contributor
William Humphrey Contributor
Jerome Weidman Contributor
Donald Hall Contributor
William Stafford Contributor
Galway Kinnell Contributor
Theodore Roethke Contributor
Ted Kooser Contributor
W. S. Merwin Contributor
James Dickey Contributor
Robert Olen Butler Contributor
Sherwood Anderson Contributor
Philip Levine Contributor
Thomas Wolfe Contributor
Guy de Maupassant Contributor
Robert Penn Warren Contributor
Sherman Alexie Contributor
Dylan Thomas Contributor
E. E. Cummings Contributor
Pablo Neruda Contributor
Raymond Carver Contributor
James Tate Contributor
Thomas Lynch Contributor
John Updike Contributor
Lucien Stryk Contributor
Simon J. Ortiz Contributor
David Bottoms Contributor
Richard Shelton Contributor
Howard Moss Contributor
Donald Justice Contributor
Miller Williams Contributor
David Wright Contributor
Andrew Hudgins Contributor
Frank O'Connor Contributor
David Huddle Contributor
Herbert Gold Contributor
Bill Henderson Contributor
James Wright Contributor
Richard Jones Contributor
Geoffrey Wolff Contributor
Stanley Kunitz Contributor
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Estatísticas

Obras
11
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1
Membros
58
Popularidade
#284,346
Avaliação
2.2
Resenhas
1
ISBNs
15

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