An Andrew Crozier Reader

✍ Scribed by Crozier, Andrew;Brinton, Ian

• Publisher: Carcanet Press Ltd.
• Year: 2012
• Tongue: English
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Andrew Crozier (1943-2008) was a poet, and an energiser of poetry. A champion of work excluded from the familiar canon, he brought to the English literary landscape of the 1960s and 70s an engagement with the energies of American poetry. As a publisher and critic he helped to create a space for new voices within English poetry: for George Oppen, Carl Rakosi, Roy Fisher, J.H. Prynne. His own poetry is meticulous in its attention to language, exhilarating in its inventiveness and force. Crozier wrote that, for him, 'becoming a poet had to do with finding a mode for making sense of ... being aliv.;Cover; Title Page; Table of Contents; ILLUSTRATIONS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; INTRODUCTION; A NOTE ON THE TEXT; I CAMBRIDGE AND NEW YORK; Train Rides; Loved Litter of Time Spent; II ESSEX AND KEELE; Walking on Grass; III PRINTED CIRCUIT TO THE VEIL POEM; Printed Circuit; Neglected Information; The Veil Poem; IV PLEATS TO WERE THERE; Pleats; Duets; High Zero; Were There; V ALL WHERE EACH IS; Pretty Head; VI ON OBJECTIVISM; The Heifer after Carl Rakosi; Inaugural and Valedictory: The Early Poetry of George Oppen; VII ON BRITISH POETRY; Signs of Identity: Roy Fisher's A Furnace.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
Title Page
Table of Contents
ILLUSTRATIONS
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
INTRODUCTION
A NOTE ON THE TEXT
I CAMBRIDGE AND NEW YORK
Train Rides
Loved Litter of Time Spent
II ESSEX AND KEELE
Walking on Grass
III PRINTED CIRCUIT TO THE VEIL POEM
Printed Circuit
Neglected Information
The Veil Poem
IV PLEATS TO WERE THERE
Pleats
Duets
High Zero
Were There
V ALL WHERE EACH IS
Pretty Head
VI ON OBJECTIVISM
The Heifer after Carl Rakosi
Inaugural and Valedictory: The Early Poetry of George Oppen
VII ON BRITISH POETRY
Signs of Identity: Roy Fisher's A Furnace. Review of J.F. Hendry's A World AlienVIII 'FREE RUNNING BITCH'
Free Running Bitch
Star Ground
Blank Misgivings
IX RESTING ON LAURELS
Resting on Laurels
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
INDEX OF POEM TITLES
INDEX OF POEM FIRST LINES
INDEX OF NAMES
About the Author
Copyright.

✦ Subjects

English poetry--20th century;English poetry;;Criticism, interpretation, etc;Crozier, Andrew -- Criticism and interpretation;Crozier, Andrew;English poetry -- 20th century