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Poems: (2015) third edition
J. H. Prynne
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Description for Poems: (2015) third edition
Paperback. Prynne is Britain's leading late Modernist poet. New expanded edition of his Poems, acclaimed as a landmark in modern poetry. Num Pages: 704 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 156 x 232 x 46. Weight in Grams: 1248.
J.H. Prynne is Britain's leading late Modernist poet. His austere yet playful poetry challenges our sense of the world, not by any direct address to the reader but by showing everything in a different light, enacting slips and changes of meaning through shifting language. Not since the late work of Ezra Pound and the Maximus series of Charles Olson have the possibilities of poetry been so fundamentally questioned and extended as they are in the life work of J.H. Prynne. When his Poems was first published in 1999, it was immediately acclaimed as a landmark in modern poetry. Four further ... Read more
J.H. Prynne is Britain's leading late Modernist poet. His austere yet playful poetry challenges our sense of the world, not by any direct address to the reader but by showing everything in a different light, enacting slips and changes of meaning through shifting language. Not since the late work of Ezra Pound and the Maximus series of Charles Olson have the possibilities of poetry been so fundamentally questioned and extended as they are in the life work of J.H. Prynne. When his Poems was first published in 1999, it was immediately acclaimed as a landmark in modern poetry. Four further ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Bloodaxe Books Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
Weight
1240g
Number of Pages
704
Place of Publication
Tyne and Wear, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781780371542
SKU
V9781780371542
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About J. H. Prynne
J.H. Prynne is Britain's leading late Modernist poet. His Poems (1982) collected all the work he wanted to keep in print, beginning with Kitchen Poems (1968). An expanded and updated version was published by Bloodaxe Books with Fremantle Arts Centre Press in 1999 as Poems, with a second, expanded edition in 2005. The third edition of Poems (Bloodaxe Books, 2015) ... Read more
Reviews for Poems: (2015) third edition
'Without doubt the most formidable and accomplished poet in England today, a writer who has single-handedly changed the vocabulary of expression' - Peter Ackroyd, The Times. 'The longer I have stayed with these pieces, the more they have moved and haunted me; the more I have felt altered by having experienced them - Prynne is hard-going, off-putting, and much disliked ... Read more