Michael Gessner

Analects Michael Gessner

Literary Nonfiction. Poetry. Art. Selected from more than four decades of journal keeping, and with additional excerpts from published essays, ANALECTS speaks to the general reader, and specifically to those who have interests in poetry and poetics. The reader will not come away without encountering helpful insights and disclosures about writing and literature in this collection. Gessner's prose has been described as Structurally ingenious, (Jonathan Galassi, Farrar, Straus & Giroux) and A great talent, (Ray Powers, Scott & Field).