| Description |
xiii, 418 pages ; 22 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 385-400) and index. |
| Contents |
On Autumn Lake -- A voice like the day -- Make it true -- The poet's so-called prose -- A Schuyler ballade -- Note on Niedecker -- Free and clean -- Niedecker and the evolutional sublime -- How Emerson avails -- A brief history of memes -- Native genius -- Lines from London Terrace -- The leftover landscape -- An outsider's introduction to Emerson -- Remarks on Ashbery -- The prophetic Ashbery -- Justified times -- Unlikely angel -- A hidden history of the avant-garde -- The drawings of Dwight Ripley -- The New York School revisited -- Poetry and the menace ahead -- Dead tech -- The enduring influence of a painter's garden -- The pyrrhic measure in American poetry -- The applause of science -- Deborah Rosenthal's art of deep time -- The civic metonymy of Michael Schiavo -- Apertures on a virtual field -- Introduction to a long poem by Robert C.L. Crawford -- Mark Milroy paints my portrait -- In the empire of the air. |
| Summary |
"On Autumn Lake collects four decades of prose (1976-2020) by renowned poet and beloved cult figure Douglas Crase, with an emphasis on idiosyncratic essays about quintessentially American poets and the enduring transcendentalist tradition. Douglas Crase's prose is rich with conviction and desire, inspiring as John Yau wrote, "the kind of attention usually reserved for poetry." His essays, written as rhythmically as poems, take a personal rather than abstract approach, offering committed and sometimes intimate portraits of John Ashbery, James Schuyler, Lorine Niedecker, and others. With generosity of spirit, Crase shares his devotion to poetry, democracy, and landscape in this handsome volume that greatly enlarges the available body of his work and will be seen as the essential complement to his collected poems."--Back cover. |
| Subject |
American poetry -- Criticism, Textual.
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American poetry -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
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American poetry -- 21st century -- History and criticism.
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Poets, American -- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Genre/Form |
Essays.
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Prose poems.
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| ISBN |
1643621432 (paperback) |
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9781643621432 (paperback) |
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