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Overview"Spanning four decades of meditation on the avant-garde in poetry, art, and philosophy, the essays collected in ""The Fire"" reveal Robin Blaser's strikingly fresh perspective on ""New American"" poets, deconstructive philosophies, current events, and the state of humanities now. The essays, gathered in one volume for the first time, include commentaries on Jack Spicer, Charles Olson, Robert Duncan, Mary Butts, George Bowering, Louis Dudek, Christos Dikeakos, and J. S. Bach. Blaser emerged from the ""Berkeley Renaissance"" of the 1940s and 1950s having studied under legendary medieval scholar Ernst Kantorowicz and having been a major participant in the burgeoning literary scene. His response to the cultural and political events of his time has been to construct a poetic voice that offers a singular perspective on a shareable world - and to pose that voice alongside others as a source of countermemory and potential agency. Conceived as conversations, these essays brilliantly reflect that ethos as they re-read the cultural events of the past fifty years." Full Product DetailsAuthor: Robin Blaser , Miriam Nichols , Miriam NicholsPublisher: University of California Press Imprint: University of California Press Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 3.80cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.499kg ISBN: 9780520245112ISBN 10: 0520245113 Pages: 535 Publication Date: 29 September 2006 Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Out of Print Availability: Out of stock  Table of ContentsReviews"""In his exquisite articulations of the flowers of associational thinking, Robin Blaser has turned knowledge into nowledge, the 'wild logos' of the cosmic companionship of the real."" - Charles Bernstein, author of Republics of Reality: 1975-1995 ""In his exquisite articulations of the flowers of associational thinking, Robin Blaser has turned knowledge into nowledge, the 'wild logos' of the cosmic companionship of the real."" - Charles Bernstein, author of Republics of Reality: 1975-1995 ""This is a landmark publication in American poetics."" - Peter Gizzi, author of Some Values of Landscape and Weather ""Blaser is a fine poet and a superb representative of a tradition that is still undervalued. His work is very important."" - Charles Altieri""" In his exquisite articulations of the flowers of associational thinking, Robin Blaser has turned knowledge into nowledge, the 'wild logos' of the cosmic companionship of the real. - Charles Bernstein, author of Republics of Reality: 1975-1995 In his exquisite articulations of the flowers of associational thinking, Robin Blaser has turned knowledge into nowledge, the 'wild logos' of the cosmic companionship of the real. - Charles Bernstein, author of Republics of Reality: 1975-1995 This is a landmark publication in American poetics. - Peter Gizzi, author of Some Values of Landscape and Weather Blaser is a fine poet and a superb representative of a tradition that is still undervalued. His work is very important. - Charles Altieri Author InformationRobin Blaser is Professor Emeritus at Simon Fraser University. Among his many books are The Holy Forest (UC Press), Pell Mell, and Syntax. Miriam Nichols is College Professor at University College of the Fraser Valley and editor of Even on Sunday: Essays, Readings, and Archival Materials on the Poetry and Poetics of Robin Blaser. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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