The Commons
Collis, Stephen
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AbeBooks Seller since 10 April 2026
Condition: Used - Very good
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Add to basketSome bumping along edges and corners, otherwise a nice copy free of internal markings.
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In The Commons we wander the English countryside with the so-called mad peasant poet John Clare, just escaped from an Essex asylum, walking the more than eighty miles to his home in Helpston; we pick wild fruit with anarchist Henry David Thoreau, also newly escaped from jail (for not paying his poll tax); and we comb the English Lake District, undermining William Wordsworth’s proprietary claim upon it, with a host of authors of RomanticGuides and Tours.
Tearing down (intellectual) property’s fencing, The Commons veers in and out of history to find spaces of linguistic hope. What we call, in less inspired moments, allusion,” borrowing,” or even (pretentiously) intertextuality” is just this fact that poetry proves again and again: our languages are common. Shared. Un-enclosable.
Stephen Collis is a poet, critic and scholar. Author of two previous books of poetry,Mine and Anarchive, his essays on contemporary poetry and poetics have appeared in many journals includingThe Capilano Review and The Chicago Review. He is the author of two book-length critical studies,Phyllis Webb and the Common Good and Through Words of Others: Susan Howe and Anarcho-Scholasticism.
Stephen Collis
Stephen Collis is the author of four books of poetry, Mine (New Star 2001), Anarchive (New Star 2005), which was nominated for the Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize, The Commons (Talonbooks 2008)—the latter two forming parts of the on-going “Barricades Project”—and On the Material (Talonbooks 2010).
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