Description: "Knoxville-born James Agee was a prolific writer, film critic, and journalist whose output garnered him a Pulitzer Prize (granted posthumously for A Death in the Family) and whose journalistic opus Let Us Now Praise Famous Men is regarded as a canonical text for both journalists and literary scholars. While Agee published one volume of poetry in 1934, no definitive collection of it has been attempted until now. Lofaro and Graves have spent years plumbing the depths of Agee's archives to put together The Complete Poetry of James Agee which includes an introduction, textual commentary and notes, and all of Agee's extant poetry to date"--
