All Prose: Selected Essays and Reviews

by William Corbett

All Prose is poet William Corbett's career-spanning collection of incisive cultural criticism. The articles contained here date from the 1970s to the present. Some are published here for the first time; some are culled from the obscure journals and popular magazines and newspapers in which they originally appeared. Whatever their provenance, the pieces collected here cover a rich landscape of Books & Writers, Art & Artists, Music & Film; and everywhere, Corbett keeps his eye trained on the cresting waves of cultural zeitgeist. All Prose encapsulates an era.

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First published September 18, 2003

About the author

William Corbett was an American poet, essayist, editor, educator, and publisher.

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Reviews

[michal k-c · Rating 3 out of 5]

Reading all of the art show reviews (his collected ephemera, in a way) back to back like this really lets on how largely Philip Guston looms over his understanding of contemporary painting. There are much worse north stars, after all. The highlights of the collection though are really the autobiographical bits, like his detailing his working relationship with James Laughlin, and the final piece which I will just say is about his family, to say the least.