Alfred Corn

Author of The Poem's Heartbeat: A Manual of Prosody (Copper Canyon Classics)

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About the Author

Alfred Corn is the author of nine books of poetry, a novel, a study of prosody, and a collection of essays. A recipient of fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the Academy of American Poets, and the National Endowment for the Arts, and others, he has traveled widely, but has made New York show more City his primary residence. As an art critic, he writes for Art in America and ARTNews. He has taught at Yale, UCLA, Columbia University, and for 2001-2002 held the Bell Chair at the University of Tulsa show less

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Works by Alfred Corn

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The Poem's Heartbeat: A Manual of Prosody (Copper Canyon Classics) (1997) 153 copies, 3 reviews

Incarnation: Contemporary Writers on the New Testament (1990) 108 copies, 2 reviews

Present (1997) 24 copies

Aaron Rose Photographs (2001) 23 copies

A Call in the Midst of the Crowd (The Penguin poets) (1978) 22 copies

The west door : poems (1988) 18 copies

Autobiographies: Poems (Poets, Penguin) (1992) 16 copies

The Various Light (1980) 15 copies

Stake: Poems, 1972-1992 (1999) 15 copies

Contradictions (2002) 12 copies

Part of His Story (1997) 11 copies

Notes from a Child of Paradise (1984) 10 copies

All Roads at Once: 2 (1976) 8 copies

Metamorphoses of Metaphor (1987) 6 copies

Unions (2014) 3 copies

Tables (2013) 2 copies

Rocinante (2016) 2 copies

The poem’s heartbeat - a manual of prosody 2 copies

Miranda's Book (2014) 1 copy

New Life, The 1 copy

Atlas: Selected Essays, 1989-2007 (Poets On Poetry) (2008) 1 copy

An Xmas Murder 1 copy

Somerset Altaic's 1 copy

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Associated Works

The Making of a Poem: A Norton Anthology of Poetic Forms (2000) — Contributor — 1,307 copies, 9 reviews

The Vintage Book of Contemporary American Poetry (1990) — Contributor, some editions — 777 copies, 3 reviews

Gay and Lesbian Poetry in Our Time (Stonewall Inn Editions) (1988) — Contributor — 180 copies, 1 review

American Religious Poems: An Anthology (2006) — Contributor — 165 copies, 2 reviews

The Best American Poetry 1998 (1998) — Contributor — 164 copies

The Columbia Anthology of Gay Literature (1998) — Contributor — 162 copies

The Best American Poetry 1991 (1991) — Contributor — 88 copies

Best American Gay Fiction 3 (1998) — Contributor — 87 copies

The World in Us: Lesbian and Gay Poetry of the Next Wave (2000) — Contributor — 84 copies

The Man I Might Become: Gay Men Write about Their Fathers (2002) — Contributor — 80 copies

Genesis as It Is Written: Contemporary Writers on Our First Stories (1996) — Contributor — 65 copies

60 Years of American Poetry (1996) — Contributor — 29 copies, 1 review

Speak My Language, and Other Stories: An Anthology of Gay Fiction (2015) — Contributor — 14 copies

Antaeus No. 69, Fall 1992 (1992) — Contributor — 6 copies

American Review #23 (1975) — Contributor — 4 copies

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Birthdate: 1943
Gender: male
Nationality: USA
Birthplace: Bainbridge, Georgia, USA
Education: Emory University (BA|French)
Organizations: Columbia University (Graduate Writing Program)
Awards and honors: Fellowship of the Academy of American Poets (1987)
American Academy of Arts and Letters Academy Award (Literature, 1983)

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Incarnation: Contemporary Writers on the New Testament by Alfred Corn

contemporary writers on the NT

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SrMaryLea | 1 other review | Aug 23, 2023 |

The Poem's Heartbeat: A Manual of Prosody, Revised… by Alfred Corn

I found this manual not especially lively or revelatory, but it is a fair introduction to the topic--or a good review (or second opinion) following more involved and engaging books on versification, such as Derek Attridge's Poetic Rhythm or Timothy Steele's All the Fun's in How You Say a Thing. It helped me synthesize perspectives on substitution, truncation, and hypermetrical syllables.

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idlerking | 2 other reviews | Mar 31, 2013 |

The Poem's Heartbeat: A Manual of Prosody (Slp… by Alfred Corn

Agree with the previous reviewer. While rich in information, the presentation made it difficult to stick with the reading. A few times, however, I caught myself saying "interesting" aloud so there were certainly gems that made the effort of reading this book worthwhile.

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rooze | 2 other reviews | Apr 10, 2008 |

Incarnation : Contemporary Writers on the New… by Alfred Corn

An imaginative introduction to the New Testament.

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chuck_ralston | 1 other review | May 29, 2006 |

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