Selected Poems of Nancy Cunard - Couverture souple

Nancy Cunard

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1784102369 ISBN 13 : 9781784102364

Editeur : Fyfield Books, 2016

Synopsis

Selected Poems gathers writing from four decades of Nancy Cunard's life, some published here for the first time. The selection illuminates Cunard's transnational modernist project in full, from her early years as a coterie poet on the edges of Bloomsbury and avant-garde London, to her frontline activism during the Spanish Civil War and life-long fight against fascism in Europe and America, to her final years documented in poems written from hospitals and sanatoriums. Among the poems is Cunard's longer, psychogeographical work Parallax, published originally by the Hogarth Press, a response in part to T. S. Eliot's The Waste Land. Through her introduction and notes, editor Sandeep Parmar frames Cunard's complex legacy as a poet, publisher, and activist. A contribution to the wider feminist revision of modernism, this volume draws attention to Cunard's extraordinary, prismatic oeuvre, shaped by some of the twentieth century's most dramatic events.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Nancy Clara Cunard (10 March 1896 - 17 March 1965) was a writer, heiress and political activist. She was born into the British upper class and devoted much of her life to fighting racism and fascism. She became a muse to some of the 20th century's most distinguished writers and artists, including Aldous Huxley and Ezra Pound, who were among her lovers. She suffered from mental illness in later life and died aged 69 in the Hopital Cochin, Paris. Sandeep Parmar received her PhD from University College London. She has written extensively on the unpublished autobiographies of the modernist poet Mina Loy. She also edited Paris by Hope Mirrlees (Carcanet) and published a poetry collection, The Marble Orchard.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Fyfield Books
• Date d'édition: 2016
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1784102369
• ISBN 13: 9781784102364
• Reliure: Broché
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 264
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible