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Until Everything Is
Continuous Again:
American Poets on the
Recent Work of W. S. Merwin
edited by Jonathan Weinert & Kevin Prufer
WordFarm Press, 2012
ESSAYS, INTERVIEWS, AND EXCHANGES on W. S. Merwin's poetry from the
publication of The Rain in the Trees in 1988 through his recent
Pulitzer Prize-winning collection The Shadow of Sirius.
Featuring contributions by David Caplan, Steven Cramer, Debra Kang
Dean, Forrest Gander, Mark Halliday, Jerry Harp, H. L. Hix, Mark Irwin,
Sarah Kennedy, Eric Pankey, Lisa Russ Spaar, Michael Theune, Jeanie
Thompson, & Matthew Zapruder
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Dunstan Thompson:
on the Life and Work of a Lost American Master
edited by D. A. Powell & Kevin Prufer
(The
Unsung Masters Series)
Largely unknown today, Dunstan Thompson
was once one of the most celebrated young poets in America. Published
during and shortly after WWII, his often harrowing, homoerotic poems,
many set on the battlefields and in the hospitals of the European
Theater, were compared favorably to the work of W.H. Auden, Hart Crane,
and Dylan Thomas. Then, as far as the general public was concerned,
Dunstan Thompson disappeared. In a series of essays, interviews,
letters, and clippings, this book traces Dunstan Thompson’s
journey from wildly successful literary enfant terrible, through his
strong Catholic reawakening, and into his later years as a writer of
mature, meditative, largely unpublished poetry.This book, the first in
Pleiades Press’s “Unsung Masters” series devoted to
great, out-of-print writers, also includes a selection of Dunstan
Thompson’s very best poetry. Contributors include Dana Gioia, Jim
Elledge, Heather Treseler, Kolt Beringer, Jerry Harp, D.A. Powell,
Kevin Prufer, Katie Ford, Philip Trower, Edward Field, & Sanford
Gifford.
from Fringe…
I can think of
no series doing anything quite like this .... It is the Unsung Masters
Series’ devotion to illuminating under-appreciated writers that
makes it truly indispensable.. —Brian
Nicolet
from The Gay & Lesbian Review…
...in our era of
manufactured celebrity, this book made me reconsider what it takes for
an author to be remembered, how easy it is for writers to become lost
to history, and the careful work that's require to help us to
rediscover them. —Jason
Roush
from New Pages…
Dunstan
Thompson: On the Life & Work of a Lost American Master is a
stunning and appropriate first for an ambitious series.... With a
fascinating biography, compelling essays, and poetry that will give you
goose bumps, Dunstan Thompson is well worth the discovery.
from Lambda Literary…
The schoolboy
and soldier snapshots are a delight for the reader who’s already
gotten a taste of Thompson’s elegant, ribald sensibility; the
photo reproductions of pages from Thompson’s short-lived lit
journal Vise Versa will give the reader a further taste of the kind of
campy, envelope-pushing poems and reviews Thompson wrote—work
that we hope will one day be republished in full, but, were it not for
this new and valuable volume, might never have been known about at all.
—Brent
Calderwood
New European Poets
Graywolf Press, 2008
from
Publishers Weekly…
[Starred
Review] Tasked with representing European poets who began publishing
after 1970, poets and editors Miller and Prufer
recruited 24 regional editors—including Marilyn Hacker (Belgium,
Luxembourg, France and Switzerland) and Rika Lesser (Finland and
Sweden)—to select and translate 270 contemporary versifiers. The
resulting anthology—designed to emphasize poets not already well
represented in English—is sure to be a boon to all kinds of
poetry
lovers and an important reference for decades to come. From Valzhyna
Mort of Belarus (“Outside your borders/ they built a huge
orphanage,/
and you left us there, belarus”) to Poland's Adam Wiedemann
(“Imagine a
situation where it never occurs to you/ to think of any other
situation”), Norway's Cathrine Grøndahl (“...the
most frightening thing
is simply/ to be named John Doe and to land in Smalltown”) to
Portugal's Rui Pires Cabral (“Great city/ of the missing, so
often I
didn't have/ the vigor to take pleasure in/ your small, deserted/
gardens”), these poets range from the surreal to the
all-too-real,
portraying decades of sweeping political change throughout Europe and
rendering inner lives shaped by circumstances and places as varied as
the languages in which they write. American readers are sure to find
many new favorites among those included, and they may even find their
whole conception of contemporary European literature upturned.
from World
Literature Today
A major anthology that
represents all countries in Europe and includes the work of many new
poets who are published here for the first time in English. —Rita Signorelli-Pappas
from Metamorphoses
Indespensible....impressive,
aesthetically diverse, and highly readable. —Corey Marks
from Boston
Review
A remarkable reading
experience. —Jordan Davis [Read the full review]
from Poetry
Wales
New European Poets opens
horizons.… A splendid anthology. —John Taylor
from The
Kansas City Star
I found no weak
poem, and I always had a sense of authenticity. These are works written
not for tourists, but rather for serious poetry readers of any
origin... This guidebook fills a need for American poets and readers of
poetry.
from The Bloomsbury Review
This
anthology is hard to put down ... New
European Poets will break
new ground for translation and for shifting attention back to the grand
European tradition—a timeless dimension whose vibrancy is vital
in
keeping global writing connected ... [a] monumental accomplishment by a
group of committed editors and publishers...proof that American poetry
can only sustain itself when it acknowledges that the origins of
timeless poetry lie elsewhere.
—Ray González
from
Harriet: The Blog of the
Poetry Foundation
[I]t's impossible not
to celebrate this book with a big whooping Hurrah.... This is not only
the most necessary recent anthology I’ve seen, it’s the
most adventurous. New
European Poets
is one of those actual instances of a book that is very hard to put
down. With its stand-out handsome cover, it makes (in case any holidays
were approaching and you were wondering what I’d recommend), a
durable
gift to yourself and friends. Prufer and Miller: great work!
—Forrest Gander [Read
the full review]
from
New Letters
Enjoyable and
energetic ... Reading New European
Poets
is like discovering a dozen new literary journals, all of high
standard, among which lurk, possibly, the next great poets of Europe.
—George Fitzpatrick
from
Notre Dame Review
The co-editors of Pleiades,
one of our best current journals, have co-edited a fine and rich volume
of European poetry assisted by twenty-four "regional editors." Poets
writing in English from England, Scotland, Wales, and Ireland take
their place beside translated poets from both Western and Eastern
Europe, including Russia and the former republics of the old Soviet
Union. Most of the poets will be entirely unknown by most readers.
—Editors Select
from
Three Percent
…a nearly
perfect undertaking. —Margarita
Shalina [Read the full review]
from Cordite
Poetry Review
…New
European Poets prepares us, as any good anthology should, for exploring
the terrain of contemporary European poetry [Read the full review]
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Also edited by Kevin
Prufer
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