News from Afar: Ezra Pound and Some Contemporary British Poetries
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News from Afar: Ezra Pound and Some Contemporary British Poetries by Richard Parker
This is a book that travels that road, on the lookout for the signs that speak most strongly to the now. Merciless war against mediocrity, sharpest eye and ear for syntax, awareness of culture in its relation to politics, use of translation as workshop for change, suspension of limits between prose and poetry, opening of poetry to what its bourgeois practice excludes: here is the generic Pound, present to contemporary needs. The struggle for a practice of resistance, discrimination of antagonisms, with all the resources poetry is capable of, here is the Pound alive in current poetry. Pound is at the core. There is, as this book shows, no way round that. -William Rowe
Richard Parker was an assistant professor of American Literature at the University of Gaziantep in Turkey from 2012-14. He has written papers on Ezra Pound, Louis Zukofsky and other recent poetries in the USA and Britain. He is the editor and printer of the Crater pamphlet series and has had various books of his own poetry published, including from The Mountain of California - , China, The Traveller and the Defence of Heaven and 49.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781848613645 |
| ISBN 10 | 1848613644 |
| Title | News from Afar: Ezra Pound and Some Contemporary British Poetries |
| Author | Richard Parker |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Shearsman Books |
| Year published | 2014-10-15 |
| Number of pages | 332 |
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