Peripheral Light: Selected And New Poems

Kinsella, John

ISBN 10: 0393058212 / ISBN 13: 9780393058215

Published by W W Norton & Co Inc, New York, 2004

About this Item

Selected and with an introduction by Harold Bloom. First printing. Upper front corner gently bumped with a corresponding crimp to the mylar covered jacket. Inscribed by Kinsella on the half title page. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Tall. Seller Inventory # M130381

Bibliographic Details

Title: Peripheral Light: Selected And New Poems

Publisher: W W Norton & Co Inc, New York

Publication Date: 2004

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine

Signed: Inscribed By the Author

Edition: First Edition.

About this title

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).