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Conversations with Jay Parini
Language: en
Pages: 237
Authors: Michael Lackey
Categories: Literary Collections
Type: BOOK - Published: 2014-06-27 - Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi

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Jay Parini (b. 1948) is best known for his novel about Leo Tolstoy's last year, The Last Station, which has been translated into more than twenty-five languages
Borges and Me
Language: en
Pages: 321
Authors: Jay Parini
Categories: Biography & Autobiography
Type: BOOK - Published: 2021-11-23 - Publisher: Anchor

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In this evocative work of what the author in his afterword calls “a kindof novelistic memoir,” Jay Parini takes us back fifty years, when he fled the United
Robert Frost
Language: en
Pages: 545
Authors: Jay Parini
Categories: Biography & Autobiography
Type: BOOK - Published: 2015-06-09 - Publisher: Henry Holt and Company

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This fascinating reassessment of America's most popular and famous poet reveals a more complex and enigmatic man than many readers might expect. Jay Parini spen
One Matchless Time
Language: en
Pages: 524
Authors: Jay Parini
Categories: Biography & Autobiography
Type: BOOK - Published: 2009-03-17 - Publisher: Harper Collins

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William Faulkner was a literary genius, and one of America's most important and influential writers. Drawing on previously unavailable sources -- including lett
Why Poetry Matters
Language: en
Pages: 217
Authors: Axinn Professor of English Jay Parini
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2008-01-01 - Publisher: Yale University Press

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This deeply felt meditation on poetry, its language and meaning, and its power to open minds and transform lives examines the importance of poetry and its diver