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An heir to Whitman, to Crane, to Ashbery, Crase deploys what he calls an American 'civil meter', throwing down a wry distinctively American prosodic gauntlet to readers and writers that is likely to be as discussed as Williams's 'variable foot'.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49590470738193,"sku":"GOR010334284","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ LIKE_NEW \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49599917949201,"sku":"GOR012937489","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":49736952414481,"sku":"NGR9781784108694","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1784108693.jpg?v=1756707517"},{"product_id":"revisionist-and-the-astropastorals-book-douglas-crase-9781643620107","title":"The Revisionist and The Astropastorals","description":"MacArthur “genius” Douglas Crase is best known for his invocations and revisions of Whitmanian transcendentalism. Out of print since 1987, his book The Revisionist has still been enough in some opinions to establish him as one of the most important poets of his generation; on its strength, says the Oxford Book of American Poetry, \"rests a formidable underground reputation.\" Now, by combining The Revisionist with Crase's chapbook The Astropastorals in a new collection, Nightboat Books presents his formidable reputation to a wider public for the first time in thirty-two years.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50396592832785,"sku":"CIN164362010XG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51042962374929,"sku":"NIN9781643620107","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52341611299089,"sku":"NLS9781643620107","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/164362010X.jpg?v=1751376933"},{"product_id":"revisionist-the-astropastorals-book-douglas-crase-9781643620404","title":"The Revisionist \u0026 The Astropastorals","description":"The paperback edition of the authors collected poems, which restores to print and prominence the work of the elusive poet Douglas Crase, best known for his award-winning collection The Revisionist.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":50679145726225,"sku":"GOR014032060","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51043138568465,"sku":"NIN9781643620404","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":51719967211793,"sku":"NGR9781643620404","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52337293164817,"sku":"NLS9781643620404","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1643620401.jpg?v=1750864134"},{"product_id":"both-book-douglas-crase-9780375422669","title":"Both","description":null,"brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50976270614801,"sku":"CIN0375422668G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":51423469797649,"sku":"CIN0375422668VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0375422668.jpg?v=1751228933"},{"product_id":"on-autumn-lake-book-douglas-crase-9781643621432","title":"On Autumn Lake","description":"On Autumn Lake collects four decades of prose (1976-2020) by renowned poet and beloved cult figure Douglas Crase, with an emphasis on idiosyncratic essays about quintessentially American poets and the enduring transcendentalist tradition.    Douglas Crase’s prose is rich with conviction and desire, inspiring as John Yau wrote, “the kind of attention usually reserved for poetry.” His essays, written as rhythmically as poems, take a personal rather than abstract approach, offering committed and sometimes intimate portraits of John Ashbery, James Schuyler, Lorine Niedecker, and others. With generosity of spirit, Crase shares his devotion to poetry, democracy, and landscape in this handsome volume that greatly enlarges the available body of his work and will be seen as the essential complement to his collected poems.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ -","offer_id":51042824782097,"sku":"","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51042827567377,"sku":"NIN9781643621432","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52453315936529,"sku":"NLS9781643621432","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1643621432.jpg?v=1751277631"},{"product_id":"amerifil-txt-book-douglas-crase-9780472066360","title":"AMERIFIL.TXT","description":"From its title forward, AMERIFIL.TXT is an unusual book. The title, unpacked like a computer filename and pronounced \"Amerifile Text,\" reveals the book's beguiling proposition: that the answer to the question of what it means to be an American lies not on television talk shows nor within think tanks but within American memory itself. The virtue of this \"Amerifile\" is to demonstrate that such memory exists, in texts ready to access as if they were digital entries in an online commonplace book.  The twenty-three American writers who appear in the book range chronologically from the colonial thinker John Wise to the contemporary poet John Ashbery. Their appearances are arranged to comment almost interactively on identifiable American issues like \"Doing Your Thing,\" \"How Writing Is Written,\" \"Pursuit of Happiness,\" and \"Right to Privacy.\" Douglas Crase has said that he finds rearrangement morally and artistically more interesting than opinions, as rearrangement involves choice and commitment, while opinions are only held. In the end, readers may conclude that Amerifil.Txt is not a commonplace book at all, but rather a spiritual autobiography of its compiler.  Douglas Crase is a widely anthologized poet, essayist, and critic. His acclaimed volume of poetry The Revisionist earned nominations for the National Book Critics Circle Award and the American Book Award in poetry. He has received an Ingram-Merrill Award, a Whiting Writer's Award, and fellowships from the MacArthur and Guggenheim foundations and the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ -","offer_id":51325783933201,"sku":"","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":51325786358033,"sku":"CIN0472066366G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0472066366.jpg?v=1750814502"}],"url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/en-gb\/collections\/author-books-by-douglas-crase.oembed","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}