There It Is: New and Selected Poems - Couverture souple

Casey, Michael

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0931507421 ISBN 13 : 9780931507427

Editeur : Loom Press, 2017

Synopsis

In 1972, Michael Casey won the Yale Younger Poets Prize for Obscenities, a collection of poems drawn from his military experience during the Vietnam War. In his foreword to the book, judge Stanley Kunitz called the work a kind of anti\-poetry that befits a kind of war empty of any kind of glory and the first significant book of poems written by an American to spring from the war in Vietnam. Its raw depictions of war\x27s mundanity and obscenity resonated with a broad audience, and Obscenities went into a mass market paperback edition, and was stocked in drugstores as well as bookstores. In the decades since, Casey\x27s poetry has continued to document the places of his work and life. Then and now, his poems foreground the voices around him over that of a single author; they are the words of young American conscripts and their Vietnamese counterparts, coworkers and bosses, neighbors and strangers. His compressed sketches and unadorned monologues have appeared in The New York Times, The Nation, and Rolling Stone. There It Is: New and Selected Poems presents, for the first time, a full tour through Casey\x27s work, from his 1972 debut to 2011\x27s Check Points, together with new and uncollected work from the late 60s on. Here are all the locations of Casey\x27s life and work\-Lowell to Landing Zone, dye house to desk\-and an ensemble cast with a lot to say. The publication of Michael Casey\x27s New and Selected Poems, with his quirky portraits of ordinary Americans, is an event to celebrate. Like a photographer snapping pictures relentlessly, he must have written a poem about everyone he ever met with dead\-on realism. Compared to him, the Spoon River Anthology is a work for kiddies. If Robert Frost was a poet of the rural New Englander, Michael Casey, also a New Englander, brings to life his mill town background, the guys who didn\x27t go on to college and the larger world, but married the girls they dated in high school and got jobs in the mill. When he\x27s sent to Vietnam he captures his fellow soldiers in their own military jargon. A master of the vernacular, he forces one to question writing in the \x27correct\x27 language when so many of us speak it quite differently, the language we think and feel in. Rare among poets, he\x27s willing to explore colloquial speech in all its messiness, and gets it down perfectly \- in fact, he\x27s got us all down spot on. This collection, with its wide range of voices, is a unique achievement. \- Edward Field, author of The Man Who Would Marry Susan Sontag and After the Fall: Poems Old and New

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

"Born in Lowell, Massachusetts, Casey in 1968 received a degree in physics from Lowell Technological Institute, where he took an English class with the poet and critic William Aiken, who became a mentor. Drafted after graduation, Casey served as a military policeman in the United States Army from 1968 to 1970, first at Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri, and then in South Vietnam. His stay at the fort provided material for a later book The Million Dollar Hole. His work as a military police officer in Quang Ngai Province in South Vietnam is reflected in Obscenities. In the military, Casey’s reading included Alan Dugan’s Poems, J. D. Salinger’s Nine Stories, and a text on thermodynamics. In a shipment of books for soldiers, he picked out The New American Poetry, 1945-1960, Donald Allen’s groundbreaking anthology where Casey found the poems of Edward Field. After Vietnam, he began a master’s degree program in physics at the State Universi

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Loom Press
• Date d'édition: 2017
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0931507421
• ISBN 13: 9780931507427
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 162
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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