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Selected Poems 1965-2018 (Paperback)
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This volume draws on over 50 years of poetry written by a poet who
stands a little askew to the dominant modes in Britain: an
Englishman in Wales, and an English poet with a decided admiration
for the work of both George Oppen and David Jones, two very
different Modernist exemplars, whose work often seems to be admired
rather than engaged with in this archipelago. Jeremy Hooker is a
literary explorer, and a poet with a powerful sense of place, whose
joy in landscape and his surroundings shines through his body of
work. In his own words: "I am a lyric poet who seeks to free
himself from the limitations of a narrow subjectivity. [...]
Openness is what I have sought in all my writings, poetry,
journals, and literary criticism. It means writing with a sense of
fluid self, of self as process rather than fixed identity, and in
relation to a world that is constantly in process. It eschews
definitive statements, and perfectly rounded forms, and is not
end-stopped. I do not follow American open-field poetry in any
doctrinaire way, and David Jones has been more important to me as a
breaker of traditional forms than Charles Olson. My idea of
openness carries some notion of organic form, but is more concerned
with making and breaking of poetic images, in the hope of
approaching an ever-elusive reality." What I have sought is to
choose poems that can speak for themselves, however closely they
may relate to the company they keep. I have excluded from this
selection a number of my longer poems, which I felt would be ill
represented by selection, although I stand by them as a whole."
General
Imprint: |
Shearsman Books
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Country of origin: |
United Kingdom |
Release date: |
July 2020 |
Authors: |
Jeremy Hooker
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Dimensions: |
229 x 152 x 16mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Paperback
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Pages: |
278 |
ISBN-13: |
978-1-84861-707-0 |
Categories: |
Books
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LSN: |
1-84861-707-0 |
Barcode: |
9781848617070 |
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