{"product_id":"the-garden-of-my-saying-paperback-1","title":"The Garden of My Saying - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eDaniel R. Schwarz\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA renowned scholar of modernism and legendary English Professor at Cornell University since 1968, Daniel R. Schwarz turns the mirror and lamp of language upon his own experience in \u003ci\u003eThe Garden of My Saying.\u003c\/i\u003e Schwarz's own poetry reflects his impressive experience as a world traveler, public intellectual, student of art and music, chronicler of world history, as well as a sensitive respondent to family matters, including remarriage and the death of his mother. These carefully-made poems reflect the sensibility of a mature person who demonstrates how he has embraced life to the fullest while acknowledging that, as in Stevens, \"Death is the Mother of Beauty\" because the preciousness of life is in part contingent upon its finitude.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e-\u003cb\u003eDaniel Morris\u003c\/b\u003e, Professor of English, Purdue University\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTo say that Daniel R. Schwarz is an esteemed professor and man of letters is true, but this isn't enough to communicate that which generates his lifelong devotion to words and literature. This collection of poems represents a portion of that energy, as well as his contagious enthusiasm. Scholar, critic, historian, and teacher, in \u003ci\u003eThe Garden of My Saying, \u003c\/i\u003e Schwarz has collected individual poems that for many years he has been publishing in literary journals. These are intimate, particular celebrations of what makes life worth living, even as their author recognizes life's impermanence. Read them and you'll learn of the heart of this man. \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e-\u003cb\u003ePeter Fortunato\u003c\/b\u003e, author, \u003ci\u003eWorld Headquarters\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn Schwarz's poems . . . we find a balance between the narrative and the lyrical in which dialogue participates in an overall - ultimately transcendent - fabric of voices that together constitute the poem. The characters' voices in Schwarz's poems stand out as individual expressions that help to conjure a narrative, even as they are absorbed by some lyric exploration that is carried out by the speaker's voice. Schwarz's voices play out the opposition and, at the same time, the mysterious partnership between the narrative and the lyrical, the concrete and the transcendent. . . . The lyric moments of feeling and perception he describes emerge from narrative contexts of setting, situation, and character. \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e-\u003cb\u003eHelen Maxson\u003c\/b\u003e, \"Speculations on the Lyrical and the Narrative Modes in Poems by Daniel R. Schwarz,\" \u003ci\u003eWestview\u003c\/i\u003e 26:1 (Spring\/Summer 2006), 15-20 \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 126\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.3 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 30, 2025\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52731389739315,"sku":"9781639807659","price":38.05,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/V1xdBJ_xv9781639807659_63510c54-5fff-4c0e-83b2-1fa96471e733.webp?v=1763855818","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/products\/the-garden-of-my-saying-paperback-1","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}