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Book SynopsisThe publication of this book restores a missing chapter in the history of twentieth-century American literatureTrade Review"This richly illuminating collection should help secure Schwartz the renewed appreciation he deserves." -- Donna Seaman - Booklist
"This new collection of Delmore Schwartz's work reads like a literary "CV of Failures," a powerful testament to a life shaken by the Great Depression. As we navigate the long road to national recovery, we can use his writing both as a mirror and as a compass." -- Jason Boog - Los Angeles Review of Books
"Excellent writing." -- National Post
"One of the young princes of American literature in the middle of the 20th century" -- National Post
"This is a consistently intriguing volume that devotees and neophytes will want on their shelf." -- Publishers Weekly
"[V]ivid details of lived experience are thrust throughout Schwartz’s writing. Readers are left reeling among elemental features of the world, physical and immediate yet drenched as well with historical and literary ambience." -- Patrick James Dunagan - Rain Taxi
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Once and for All serves as an ideal introduction for the curious reader." -- Adam Kirsch - Tablet
"The brilliant, doomed Delmore Schwartz was one of his generation's strongest creative talents, but his imaginative work has been sadly neglected.
Once and for All is the latest and most comprehensive collection of his work to date and the volume takes on a very valuable task: it attempts to give Schwartz's provocative and multifaceted literary legacy its long-deserved due." -- Matt Hanson - The Arts Fuse
"Delmore's genius survives in the sound of his words, in his hypnotizing lines." -- Jonathan Galassi - The New York Review of Books
"For Schwartz poetry was ongoing and unstoppable, a process as compulsive and endless as the mariner's telling of his tale." -- Mark Ford - TLS
"What complicates and enriches Schwartz’s comedy is, I think, a reaching out toward nobility, a shy aspiring spirituality, a moment or two of achieved purity of feeling." -- Irving Howe
"A genius... one of the greatest writers of our era." -- Lou Reed
"I wanted to write. One line as good as yours. My mountain. My inspiration." -- Lou Reed
