The Revisionist and The Astropastorals
ISBN: 9781784108694
Published: 2019
Number of pages: 144
Format: Paperback / softback
Format: 21.6×13.5
Published: 2019
Number of pages: 144
Format: Paperback / softback
Format: 21.6×13.5
Description
Douglas Crase is best known for a single book of poems, "The Revisionist" (1981). In the year of its publication John Ashbery urged Carcanet to consider it for British publication and now, thirty-eightyears later, the book appears together with the chapbook entitled "The Astropastorals" (2017), which together constitute the core of Crase's poetic work.He is among the crucial poets of his generation, but until now hiswork has not been widely available. "The Revisionist" went out of print in1987. Its influence persists, "The Oxford Book of American Poetry" says, asa "formidable underground reputation" here surfacing decisively at last, with Mark Ford's essay providing advocacy and context for the Britishreader. An heir to Whitman, to Crane, to Ashbery, Crase deploys whathe calls an American "civil meter", throwing down a wry distinctivelyAmerican prosodic gauntlet to readers and writers that is likely to beas discussed as Williams's "variable foot".
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