Peripheral Light: Selected and New Poems
Peripheral Light: Selected and New Poems
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Summary
Harold Bloom has selected poems by Australian poet, John Kinsella, and provides an introduction to them.
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Peripheral Light: Selected and New Poems by John Kinsella
This landmark publication heralds the long-awaited American debut of one of Australia's best poets."John Kinsella is an Orphic fountain, a prodigy of the imagination...he frequently makes me think of John Ashbery: improbable fecundity, eclecticism, and a stand that fuses populism and elitism in poetic audience....We are poised before the onset of what I prophesy will be a major art."Harold Bloom, from the introduction
"John Kinsella's Peripheral Light: Selected and New Poems (WWNorton 2004) brings together some of the strongest poems by the energetic Australian poet selected and introduced by Harold BloomDrawing upon rural Australian upbringing, Kinsella's poetry moves between the visible and unseen exploring the natural world as a set of relations and connections. It is significantly a poetry of both mind and emotion and an evolving journey for both poet and reader with more than one register. It is this ability to think and write beyond a narrow range of registers that make Kinsella's work stand out. There are poems here that are memorable through their rhythmic choices, abstract thought and settled form. They are like a pair of old boots recognisable and lived in." David Caddy, The Poetry Prose Review, Autumn 2004
John Kinsella is the author of more than thirty books. He is a fellow of Churchill College, University of Cambridge, and emeritus professor of literature and environment at Curtin University. He lives at Jam Tree Gully in the Western Australian wheatbelt. The Sterling Professor of Humanities at Yale University, Harold Bloom (b. 1930) has been hailed as “one of our greatest living literary critics” (Los Angeles Times).
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| ISBN 13 | 9780393058215 |
| ISBN 10 | 0393058212 |
| Title | Peripheral Light: Selected and New Poems |
| Author | John Kinsella |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | WW Norton & Co |
| Year published | 2003-11-17 |
| Number of pages | 224 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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