The Multiple - Brossura

Bedient, Calvin

Brossura

ISBN 10: 1890650668 ISBN 13: 9781890650667

Casa editrice: Omnidawn Pub, 2012

Riassunto

An unspeakably excessive reality is met with unremitting intensity in this collection of poetry—the imbroglio of entwinements and failed copulas within and around humankind compose the “multiple” in question, the reality underlying and giving lie to society’s stereotypes. Witty, multitonal, musical, propositional, and painterly, the poems interweave personal narrative with political crises and make no effort to take the edge off the razor-sharp examination of the contemporary sociopolitical situation that takes shape throughout the collection. What emerges in the lines is as surprising and unforgiving as it is disarmingly delightful, creating an engaging lyricism that appeals to philosophy as well as literature.

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Informazioni sugli autori

Calvin Bedient is a professor emeritus at the University of California–Los Angeles and the coeditor of Lana Turner. He is also a critic whose reviews have appeared in the Boston Review, the New York Times Book Review, the New Republic, the Nation, Partisan Review, and Salmagundi. His books and collections of poetry include Candy Necklace, Days of Unwilling, Eight Contemporary Poets, He Do the Police in Different Voices, The Violence of the Morning, and The Yeats Brothers and Modernism’s Love of Motion. He lives in Santa Monica, California.

CALVIN BEDIENT was raised in Washington state and got his Ph.D. in English literature at the University of Washington, after studying piano at the Whitman College Conservatory of Music. His first teaching position was at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia. He then taught at the University of California until his recent retirement. He has been a visiting instructor at Harvard University and the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. A founding editor of the New California Poetry Series, he now co-edits Lana Turner: A Journal of Poetry & Opinion. His reviews have appeared in The New York Times Book Review, The New Republic, The Nation, Partisan Review, Salmagundi, The Boston Review, and still other magazines. His critical books include Eight Contemporary Poets (Oxford University Press), He Do the Police in Different Voices: The Waste Land and its Protagonist (University of Chicago Press), and The Yeats Brothers and Modernism’s Love of Motion (University of Notre Dame Press). He has published three previous collections of poetry: Candy Necklace (Wesleyan University Press), The Violence of the Morning (University of Georgia Press), and Days of Unwilling (Saturnalia Books). He lives in Santa Monica, California.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Omnidawn Pub
• Data di pubblicazione: 2012
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 1890650668
• ISBN 13: 9781890650667
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 83
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
• Persona responsabile: non disponibile