Collected Works, Volumes II and III (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Paul Metcalf
- First Published: 1997
- Type of Work: Essays, history, autobiography, and travelogue
- Time of Work: Volume 2: 1976-1986; Volume 3: 1987-1997
- Genres: Nonfiction, Autobiography, Essays
- Subjects: Traveling or travelers, Slavery or slaves, Roads, streets, or highways, Midwest, Native Americans or American Indians, Small-town life, Disasters, Earthquakes, Natural disasters, Geology or geologists
The Russian Formalist critic Viktor Shklovsky observed that in the history of art, the legacy is transmitted not from father to son but from uncle to nephew (and from aunt to niece—or from aunt to nephew). Each new generation of novelists, painters, and composers is likely to look for inspiration not to their immediate predecessors but to figures more distant, whether from another culture or from the neglected riches of their own traditions.
People should not be surprised, then, if the young writers and artists in their acquaintance all seem to be reading Paul Metcalf. After...
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