The Fire - Collected Essays of Robin Blaser (Paperback)

Spanning four decades of meditation on the avant-garde in poetry, art, and philosophy, the essays collected in "The Fire" reveal Robin Blaser's strikingly fresh perspective on "New American" poets, deconstructive philosophies, current events, and the state of humanities now. The essays, gathered in one volume for the first time, include commentaries on Jack Spicer, Charles Olson, Robert Duncan, Mary Butts, George Bowering, Louis Dudek, Christos Dikeakos, and J. S. Bach. Blaser emerged from the "Berkeley Renaissance" of the 1940s and 1950s having studied under legendary medieval scholar Ernst Kantorowicz and having been a major participant in the burgeoning literary scene. His response to the cultural and political events of his time has been to construct a poetic voice that offers a singular perspective on a shareable world - and to pose that voice alongside others as a source of countermemory and potential agency. Conceived as conversations, these essays brilliantly reflect that ethos as they re-read the cultural events of the past fifty years.

General

Imprint:	University of California Press
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	September 2006
First published:	September 2006
Authors:	Robin Blaser
Editors:	Miriam Nichols
Commentary by:	Miriam Nichols
Dimensions:	229 x 154 x 34mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Trade
Pages:	516
ISBN-13:	978-0-520-24511-2
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Language & linguistics > Semantics (meaning) > General
LSN:	0-520-24511-3
Barcode:	9780520245112

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