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John Ashbery is America's greatest living poet. He is also greatly
misunderstood. For many he is the inheritor of and American
tradition that includes Walt Whitman and Wallace Stevens. Yet for
some he threatens the very future of poetry. He is a source of
continuing inspiration for younger writers of all kinds. Yet he can
still prompt startling hostility from reviewers. Lauded by
admirers, baffling to detractors, Ashbery's achievement remains
perplexingly great. "John Ashbery and American Poetry" takes this
paradoxical state of affairs as its starting point. David Herd sets
out to provide readers with a new critical language through which
they can appreciate the beauty and complexity of Ashbery's writing.
Presenting the poet in all his forms -avant-garde, nostalgic,
sublime and camp - the book argues that the perpetual inventiveness
of Ashbery's work has always been underpinned by the poets desire
to write the poem fit to cope with its occasion. Tracing Ashbery's
development in the light of this idea, and from its origins in the
dazzling artistic environment of 1950's New York, the book
evaluates his poetry against the aesthetic, literary and historical
backgrounds that have informed it. Ashbery is identified as both an
American pragmatist writing in the sprit of William James, and as
committed literary internationalist learning from Boris Pasternak
and the Russian avant-garde. His poetry is shown to be alive to
such culturally defining issues as the growth of mass culture, the
absence of a divine presence, the war in Vietnam, the emergence of
AIDS, the erosion of tradition, and the decline of the avant-garde.
His responses to such pressures are contrasted with the work of,
among others, Robert Lowell, John Berryman Kenneth Koch, and Frank
O'Hara. The story of a brilliant career, and a history of the
period in which that career has taken shape, "John Ashbery and
American Poetry" provides a compelling account of Ashbery's
importance to Twentieth Century Literature.
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Poetry Review, v. 93, No. 1 (Paperback)
Sebastiao Salgado; Edited by David Herd, Robert Potts; Illustrated by Ben E. Watkins, Roy Arenella
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R235
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Upon changing his religion, a young man is denounced as an apostate
and flees his country hiding in the back of a freezer lorry...
After years of travelling and losing almost everything - his
country, his children, his wife, his farm - an Afghan man finds
unexpected warmth and comfort in a stranger's home... A student
protester is forced to leave his homeland after a government
crackdown, and spends the next 25 years in limbo, trapped in the UK
asylum system... Modelled on Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, the second
volume of Refugee Tales sets out to communicate the experiences of
those who, having sought asylum in the UK, find themselves
indefinitely detained. Here, poets and novelists create a space in
which the stories of those who have been detained can be safely
heard, a space in which hospitality is the prevailing discourse and
listening becomes an act of welcome.
As poet, critic, theorist and teacher, Charles Olson extended the
possibilities of modern writing. From Call Me Ishmael, his
pioneering study of Herman Melville, to his epic poetic project The
Maximus Poems, Olson probed the relation between language, space
and community. Writing in the aftermath of the Second World War, he
provided radical resources for the re-imagining of place and
politics, resources for collective thought and creative practice we
are still learning how to use. Re-situating Olson's work in
relation both to his own moment and to current concerns, the essays
assembled in Contemporary Olson provide a major re-assessment of
his place in postwar poetry and culture. Through a series of
contextualising chapters, discussions of individual poems and
reflections on Olson's legacy by leading international writers and
critics, the book presents a poet who still informs contemporary
poetry. -- .
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Poetry Review, v.93, No.4 (Paperback)
David Herd, Robert Potts; Illustrated by Gillian Wearing, Gehard Richter, Cathy De Monchaux
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R236
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Poetry Review, v.93, No.3 (Paperback)
Franz West; Edited by David Herd, Robert Potts; Illustrated by Cerith Wynn Evans, Roger Hiorns
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R236
Discovery Miles 2 360
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Seventy years after the adoption of the 1951 Refugee Convention,
the UK is guilty of undermining the very principles of asylum,
inhumanely detaining those seeking protection and ushering in
sweeping changes that threaten to punish refugees at every turn.
But the UK’s immigration system is not alone in committing such
breaches of human rights. The fourth volume of Refugee Tales
explores our present international environment, combining author
re-tellings with first-hand accounts of individuals who have been
detained across the world. As the coronavirus pandemic defies
borders – leaving those who are detained even more vulnerable –
this collection shares stories spanning Canada, Greece, Italy,
Switzerland and the UK, and calls for international insistence on a
future without detention. Featuring a prologue by Baroness Shami
Chakrabarti. The fourth volume in the Refugee Tales series,
proceeds from the sales of which go to two refugee charities.
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