Michael White (7) (1956–)
Autore di Travels in Vermeer: A Memoir
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Michael White is the author of four award-winning poetry collections, most recently Vermeer in Hell (Persea), winner of the Lexi Rudnitsky Editor's Choice Award. His poems and essays have been published widely, including in The Paris Review, The New Republic, The Kenyon Review. White heads the mostra altro creative writing department at the University of North Carolina, Wilmington. mostra meno
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- Altri nomi
- WHITE, Michael
- Data di nascita
- 1956
- Sesso
- male
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- Opere
- 5
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- 1
- Utenti
- 73
- Popolarità
- #240,526
- Voto
- 3.6
- Recensioni
- 3
- ISBN
- 452
- Lingue
- 25
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- 1
The impetus for White’s determination to see all Vermeer’s extant work is never fully explained; perhaps it cannot be explained. Obsessions frequently make no sense to anyone except to the person in their thrall. Even his ultimate satisfaction and acknowledgement of the end of his obsession have to be taken on faith by the reader.
For all of that, it’s an often moving work, as he describes the life journey that set him off on this epic quest. As a talented poet, White is at home in the language of the inner self, and exquisitely in tune with the internal meaning of that which we perceive with our eyes but truly understand only with our hearts.… (altro)