James K. Baxter (1926-1972) is one of the twentieth-century's most remarkable poets, yet he has been too little regarded of outside his native New Zealand. In this innovative selection, Paul Millar, the expert on Baxter, gathers his most powerful and celebrated poems - political, lyrical and spiritu
Gap gardening: selected poems
β Scribed by Duffy, Nikolai;Waldrop, Rosmarie
- Publisher
- New Directions Books
- Year
- 2016
- Tongue
- en-US
- Weight
- 171 KB
- Series
- New Directions Paperbook Original 1333
- Category
- Fiction
- City
- New York
- ISBN
- 0811225887
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
β¦ Synopsis
An essential edition of a major avant-garde poet: "Waldrop compels us to seek out new superlatives" (Ben Lerner, Jacket)
Rosmarie Waldrop says Gap Gardening "spans forty years of exploring the language I breathe and move in and that continues to condition me even while I try to contribute to it. It tracks my turn from verse to prose poems, to focusing on the sentence and its boundaries, my increasing reliance on collage and source texts as a way of engaging with other voices, of being in dialogue."
Gap Gardening also traces Waldrop's growing sense of writing as an exploration of what happens in between. Between words, sentences, people, cultures. Between fragment and flow, thinking and feeling, mind and body. For the first time, we have a complete and clear view of the work of a great and inquiring, brave and indispensable poet.
β¦ Subjects
American poetry -- 21st century
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