Collected Works, Volume I (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Paul Metcalf
- First Published: 1996
- Type of Work: Fiction; history; collage
- Time of Work: 1956-1976
- Genres: Long fiction, Historical fiction
- Subjects: Culture, History, Language or languages, United States or Americans, Poetry or poets, Writing, Native Americans or American Indians, South America or South Americans
Paul Metcalf is one of the undiscovered treasures of American literature in the second half of the twentieth century, and the publication of his Collected Works by Coffee House Press is an occasion for rejoicing. This first volume, issued in the fall of 1996, will be followed by two more, the final volume planned for the fall of 1997 to coincide with Metcalf’s eightieth birthday.
Metcalf’s obscurity is not what is interesting about him—he should not be read because he is relatively unknown—but it is the necessary starting point. That which cannot be readily...
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