Vanishing Points
by Rod MenghamRoy Fisher (Contribution by)Lionel G. Fogarty (Contribution by)Ulli Freer (Contribution by)Peter Gizzi (Contribution by)Lyn Hejinian (Contribution by)Susan Howe (Contribution by)Lisa Jarnot (Contribution by)Michele Leggott (Contribution by)Tony Lopez (Contribution by)Barry MacSweeney (Contribution by)John Kinsella (Contribution by, Editor)Anna Mendelssohn (Contribution by)Drew Milne (Contribution by)Jennifer Moxley (Contribution by)Ian Patterson (Contribution by)J. H. Prynne (Contribution by)Peter Riley (Contribution by)Lisa Robertson (Contribution by)Stephen Rodefer (Contribution by)Gig Ryan (Contribution by)John Tranter (Contribution by)John Ashbery (Contribution by)Geoff Ward (Contribution by)Marjorie Welish (Contribution by)John Wilkinson (Contribution by)Caroline Bergvall (Contribution by)Lee Ann Brown (Contribution by)Brian Catling (Contribution by)David Chaloner (Contribution by)Andrew Crozier (Contribution by)Andrew Duncan (Contribution by)
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This major international anthology provides students and the general reader with an invaluable introduction to contemporary modernist poetry.Containing over thirty poets from Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the UK and USA, this selection offers a powerful vision of late-Twentieth-century poetic achievement: international, politically- and socially-engaged, and radical in imaginative vision and practice. It celebrates risk, resistance, protest and diversity within poetry, reaching across national and cultural boundaries.Vanishing Points provides students of Creative Writing, Cultural Studies, English and American Studies, as well as the general reader, with an important survey of modernist poetry at the start of the new millennium.* A unique introduction to the wide range of modernist experiment in contemporary poetry* Ideal study aid for students of poetry and poetics* Broad, international selection of acclaimed modernist poets* Substantial contributions offer important insights into the range of each poet's workFrom the Introduction:The vanishing point lies beyond the horizon established by ruling conventions, it is where the imagination takes over from the understanding. Most anthologies of contemporary verse are filled with poems that do not cross that dividing-line, but our contention is that many poems in this volume are situated on the threshold of conventional sense-making. They go beyond the perspective of accepted canons of taste and judgement and ask questions about where they belong, and who they are meant for, often combining the pathos of estrangement with the irascibility of the refusenik.All anthologies enter the world fully aware of their genealogy, of where they fit in, of how they relate to certain traditions of writing by affiliation or rejection. This combination of dependent and independent gestures is inevitable, particularly in the case of selections of work aligned with national or regional versions of literary history. The present anthology does not fall into that category; its international reach does not, however, bring exemption from the dilemma of wanting to stand apart from conditions of rivalry while also needing to claim a special value in comparison with publications already available.
| ISBN-13 | 9781876857134 |
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| ISBN-10 | 1876857137 |
| Weight | 2.31 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 5.50 x 0.74 x 8.50 In |
| List Price | $19.95 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Language | English |
| Pages | 332 pages |
| Publisher | Salt Publishing |
| Published On | 2005-01-01 |
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