The Holy Forest

Robin Blaser

ISBN 10: 0889104352 / ISBN 13: 9780889104358

Published by Coach House Press, 1993

About this Item

1993. First Edition, stated. VG++ book showing only small signs of age & use. Pages are bright, clean, & unmakred; binding is firm & square. Edges a corners show some she;f-wear and rubbing. Covers are clean with no tears. 394 pp., edited by Stan Persky & Michael Ondaatje. 1500 copies. Signed by Blaser on half-title.

Seller Inventory # 000760

Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Holy Forest
• Publisher: Coach House Press
• Publication Date: 1993
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0889104352
• ISBN 13: 9780889104358
• Binding: Soft cover
• Illustrator: Ernest Chiriaka
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Very Good
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)

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Synopsis

Robin Blaser, one of the key North American poets of the postwar period, emerged from the "Berkeley Renaissance" of the 1940s and 1950s as a central figure in that burgeoning literary scene. "The Holy Forest", now spanning five decades, is Blaser's highly acclaimed lifelong serial poem. This long-awaited revised and expanded edition includes numerous published volumes of verse, the ongoing "Image-Nation" and "Truth Is Laughter" series, and new work from 1994 to 2004. Blaser's passion for world making draws inspiration from the major poets and philosophers of our time - from friends and peers such as Robert Duncan, Jack Spicer, Charles Olson, Charles Bernstein, and Steve McCaffery to virtual companions in thought such as Hannah Arendt, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Michel Foucault, and Jacques Derrida, among others. This comprehensive compilation of Blaser's prophetic meditations on the histories, theories, emotions, experiments, and countermemories of the late twentieth century will stand as the definitive collection of his unique and luminous poetic oeuvre.

Review

"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 "Blaser is a fine poet and a superb representative of a tradition that is still undervalued. His work is very important." - Charles Altieri"