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OverviewOn Autumn Lakecollects four decades of prose (1976-2020) by renowned poet and beloved cult figure Douglas Crase, with an emphasis on idiosyncratic essays about quintessentially American poets and the enduring transcendentalist tradition. Douglas Crase's prose is rich with conviction and desire, inspiring as John Yau wrote, ""the kind of attention usually reserved for poetry."" His essays, written as rhythmically as poems, take a personal rather than abstract approach, offering committed and sometimes intimate portraits of John Ashbery, James Schuyler, Lorine Niedecker, and others. With generosity of spirit, Crase shares his devotion to poetry, democracy, and landscape in this handsome volume that greatly enlarges the available body of his work and will be seen as the essential complement to his collected poems. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Douglas CrasePublisher: Nightboat Books Imprint: Nightboat Books ISBN: 9781643621432ISBN 10: 1643621432 Pages: 344 Publication Date: 07 July 2022 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In stock  We have confirmation that this item is in stock with the supplier. It will be ordered in for you and dispatched immediately. Table of ContentsI. Introduction II. Four Saints On Autumn Lake: John Ashbery A Voice Like the Day: James Schuyler Make It True: James Schuyler The Poet’s So-called Prose: Marianne Moore A Schuyler Ballade Note on Niedecker Free and Clean: Lorine Niedecker Niedecker and the Evolutional Sublime III. How Emerson Avails How Emerson Avails A Brief History of Memes Native Genius: Richard Poirier An Outsider’s Introduction to Emerson IV. The Prophetic Ashbery Remarks on Ashbery The Prophetic Ashbery Justified Times: John Ashbery V. The New York School Revisited Unlikely Angel: Dwight Ripley and the New York School The Drawings of Dwight Ripley A Hidden History of the Avant-Garde The New York School Revisited VI. Traditions Ahead Poetry and the Menace Ahead The Enduring Influence of a Painter’s Garden: Robert Dash Statement on Form The Pyrrhic Measure in American Poetry: John Koethe, Marjorie Welish The Applause of Science: George Bradley The Civic Metonymy of Michael Schiavo Three Introductions: Ann Lauterbach, Gerrit Henry, Marjorie Welish Apertures on a Virtual Field: Michelle Jaffé Deborah Rosenthal’s Art of Deep Time Mark Milroy Paints My Portrait In the Empire of the Air: Donald Britton VII. Updates VIII. Appendix: A Conversation with Ian Pople IX. IndexReviewsCrase is that rare figure in American letters: a subversive who challenges the received wisdom promulgated in English and American literature departments from sea to shining sea... Whoever or whatever he is writing about, in whatever form he explores - from poems to essays to biography to memoir - Crase shows us something about ourselves in the constant commo tion of what we inhabit. - John Yau, Hyperallergic The Revisionist & The Astropastorals (Nightboat Books) testifies to the poet's enduring relevance to the art - this is verse so meticulous in its construction, exquisite in its intelligence, and ravishing in its imagery that fellow poets cannot help but feel both daunted and inspired by the achievement. - Albert Mobilio, Hyperallergic Lines from London Terrace is brimming with Crase's acute insights into the work of figures ranging from Emerson to John Ashbery, Marianne Moore, Fairfield Porter, and John Koethe. Along with The Revisionists and The Astropastorals, these two recently published books testify to the vitality and range of Crase's writing and thought. - Andrew Epstein, Locus Sulos: The New York School of Poets Douglas Crase's poems are objects of profound and gentle beauty, both in their deliciously poised idiom, and in being monuments to the protean moments of a vast genera of life: civic, environmental, economic, stellar. Such monuments as his enable us to better understand how different levels of life and earth interact or displace one another. - Sam Buchan-Watts, London Magazine "“Gracefully wrought essays imbued with a rare intimacy.” — Kirkus (Starred Review) “The future awaits us and Crase has set the bar high for all of us. May we live up to his example.” — g emil reutter, North of Oxford ""This is easily the finest collection of prose I’ve read in years."" — rob mclennan ""Four decades of critical writing from poet Crase (The Revisionist) come together in this intensive collection... Crase is skeptical about calling the pieces criticism; rather, 'they are appreciations or predilections, though to be truthful they were more like affairs of the heart, affairs of attention and intellectual desire, rather than criticism.'"" — Publishers Weekly" Author InformationDouglas Crase is an independent poet and essayist. He was born in Michigan in 1944, raised on a farm, and educated at Princeton. A former speechwriter, he was described in the Times Literary Supplement as ""the unusual case of a contemporary poet whose most public, expansive voice is his most authentic,"" and in Hyperallergic as ""that rare figure in American letters: a subversive who challenges the received wisdom promulgated in English and American literature departments from sea to shining sea."" His first book, The Revisionist, was named a Notable Book of the Year in 1981 by The New York Times and nominated for a National Book Critics Circle Award and a National Book Award in poetry. His collected poems, The Revisionist and The Astropastorals, was a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award and named a Book of the Year for 2019 in both the Times Literary Supplementand Hyperallergic. His dual biography of influential aesthetes Rupert Barneby and Dwight Ripley, Both: A Portrait in Two Parts, was nominated for a Lambda Literary Award and named a Stonewall Honor Book by the American Library Association. He has received a Whiting Writers' Award, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and a MacArthur ""genius"" award. He lives with his husband, Frank Polach, in New York and Carley Brook, Pennsylvania. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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