Peripheral Light | Selected and New Poems

John Kinsella, Harold Bloom (intro)

ISBN 10: 0393058212 / ISBN 13: 9780393058215

Published by W. W. Norton & Co., 2004

About this Item

2004, hardback in jacket, 194 pages | sound, clean copy shows light reading wear; half-title page has gift inscription (named recipient) from the author | carefully packaged and dispatched from UK within two working days.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Peripheral Light | Selected and New Poems
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Co.
• Publication Date: 2004
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0393058212
• ISBN 13: 9780393058215
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Near Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine
• Signed: Inscribed by Author(s)

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Synopsis

This landmark publication heralds the long-awaited American debut of one of Australia's best poets."John Kinsella is an Orphic fountain, a prodigy of the imagination...he frequently makes me think of John Ashbery: improbable fecundity, eclecticism, and a stand that fuses populism and elitism in poetic audience....We are poised before the onset of what I prophesy will be a major art."Harold Bloom, from the introduction

About the Authors

John Kinsella is the author of over thirty books, including the critically acclaimed Jam Tree Gully and Firebreaks. He is a Fellow of Churchill College, University of Cambridge, and professor of literature and environment at Curtin University. In 2007 he received the Fellowship of Australian Writers Christopher Brennan Award for lifetime achievement in poetry. He lives at Jam Tree Gully in the Western Australian Wheatbelt.

The Sterling Professor of Humanities at Yale University, Harold Bloom (b. 1930) has been hailed as “one of our greatest living literary critics” (Los Angeles Times).