New from Salt Publishing
VANISHING POINTS
NEW MODERNIST POEMS
Edited by Rod Mengham & John Kinsella
ISBN 1-876857-13-7
216 x 140 mm (8.5 x 5.5 inches)
Paperback 332 pp
Price £14.99 US$19.99
This major international anthology provides students and the general reader
with an invaluable introduction to contemporary modernist poetry.
Including John Ashbery, Lyn Hejinian, Susan Howe, Barry MacSweeney and J.H.
Prynne, Vanishing Points contains more than thirty poets from the UK, USA,
Canada, Australia and New Zealand, it presents an alternative vision of late
Twentieth century poetic achievement: international, politically engaged and
radical in vision.
Vanishing Points provides students of Creative Writing, Cultural Studies,
English and American Studies, as well as the general reader, with an
important survey of modernist poetry at the start of the new millennium.
* A unique introduction to the wide range of modernist experiment in
contemporary poetry
* Ideal study aid for students of poetry and poetics
* Broad, international selection of acclaimed modernist poets
* Substantial contributions offer important insights into the range of each
poetıs work
From the Introduction:
The vanishing point lies beyond the horizon established by ruling
conventions, it is where the imagination takes over from the understanding.
Most anthologies of contemporary verse are filled with poems that do not
cross that dividing-line, but our contention is that many poems in this
volume are situated on the threshold of conventional sense-making. They go
beyond the perspective of accepted canons of taste and judgement and ask
questions about where they belong, and who they are meant for, often
combining the pathos of estrangement with the irascibility of the refusenik.
All anthologies enter the world fully aware of their genealogy, of where
they fit in, of how they relate to certain traditions of writing by
affiliation or rejection. This combination of dependent and independent
gestures is inevitable, particularly in the case of selections of work
aligned with national or regional versions of literary history. The present
anthology does not fall into that category; its international reach does
not, however, bring exemption from the dilemma of wanting to stand apart
from conditions of rivalry while also needing to claim a special value in
comparison with publications already available.
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