Vanishing Points
Language: English
Published by Salt Publishing, 2004
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Vanishing Points | Rod Mengham (u. a.) | Taschenbuch | Kartoniert / Broschiert | Englisch | 2004 | Salt Publishing | EAN 9781876857134 | Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, 36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr[at]libri[dot]de | Anbieter: preigu Print on Demand.
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- Title
- Vanishing Points
- Author
- Rod Mengham (u. a.)
- Publisher
- Salt Publishing
- Publication year
- 2004
- Condition
- Neu
- Binding
- Taschenbuch
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 1876857137
- ISBN 13
- 9781876857134
- Item weight
- 470 grams
- Dimensions
- 216 x 140 x 20 mm
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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 work
From 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.
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About the Author
Rod Mengham lives and works in Cambridge. He has written books on Henry Green, Emily Brontë, Charles Dickens, Thomas Hardy and on language and cultural history; he has also edited books on violence and the artistic imagination, and on modernist and contemporary fiction. He is the editor of the Equipage series of poetry pamphlets and co-editor and co-translator of the anthology of contemporary Polish poetry, Altered State (Arc, 2003). His own poems have been published in Unsung: New and Selected Poems (Salt, 2001) and with photographs by Marc Atkins in Parleys and Skirmishes (Ars Cameralis, 2007).
John Kinsella’s most recent volumes of poetry include Drowning in Wheat: Selected Poems 1980-2015 (Picador, 2016), Insomnia (Picador, 2019; WW Norton, 2020), and Brimstone: Villanelles (Arc, 2020). He is also the author of numerous works of fiction, memoir and criticism, and a frequent collaborator with other poets, critics, artists and musicians. Peepal Tree have published the cycle of works he as co-written with Kwame Dawes. He is a Fellow of Churchill College, Cambridge, and Emeritus Professor of Literature and Environment at Curtin University, Western Australia. His many prizes and awards include the Australian Prime Minster's Award for Poetry, the Christopher Brennan Award for Lifetime Achievement in poetry, as well as PBS special commendations, recommendations and a choice for Armour (Picador, 2011). He is a well-known environmental, human and animal rights activist.
Caroline Bergvall was born in 1962 of French-Norwegian nationalities and has been based in England since 1989. She is widely published and her text pieces and collaborations have been produced internationally. Her work plays around with perception through language games, sexual ecstasies, multilingual speech, sited texts and ephemeral gestures. She is Research Fellow in Performance Writing at Dartington College and co-chair in Writing, Bard College.
Born in rural Cheshire in 1944 David Chaloner spent his early years dreaming of escape. As the closest city, Manchester provided a cultural and social context for his early writing, when jazz was available in clubs created from empty cotton warehouses and Granada Television struggled with the idea of a new arts programme that included poetry. Apart from ‘Little Press’ publication, the first published work appeared in the Tandem paperback ‘Generation X’, a true sociological record of the times, and the Penguin anthology, Children of Albion. In the late sixties he founded ONE, a magazine for new writing, that existed through the transitional years of a move to London in the early seventies. A continuing sense of enquiry and curiosity informs his work and helps in pushing the possibilities of language, music and image in varying and divers ways. He died in 2010.
Andrew Duncan was born in 1956, and brought up in the Midlands, “in an atmosphere of technological optimism and class levelling which the South succeeded in reversing thereafter.” He worked as a labourer (in England and Germany) after leaving school, and subsequently as a project planner with a telecomms manufacturer (1978–87), and as a programmer for the Stock Exchange (1988–91).
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