Ian Hamilton Finlay: Selections

Finlay, Ian Hamilton

ISBN 10: 0520270592 / ISBN 13: 9780520270596

Edité par University of California Press, 2012

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Berkeley. 2012. April 2012. University of California Press. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Wrappers. 9780520270596. Edited and with an Introduction by Alec Finlay. Poets for the Millennium, 8. 23 b/w photographs. 280 pages. paperback. keywords: Europe Scotland Literature Poetry World Literature. DESCRIPTION - 'I consider this book, long overdue, to be a milestone in publishing.' - Marjorie Perloff, author of The Futurist Moment and Unoriginal Genius. Ian Hamilton Finlay was an entirely original, and continuously challenging, voice in the poetry of the English-speaking world. Stephen Bann, author of Ways Around Modernism This volume surveys the life and work of the Scottish poet Ian Hamilton Finlay, who is best known for his extraordinary garden, Little Sparta, a unique poem of place, in which poetry, sculpture, and horticulture intersect. This book directs sustained attention to Finlay the verbal artist, revealing the full breadth and richness of his poetics. It illuminates the evolution from his early years of composing plays, stories, and lyrical poems to his discovery of Concrete poetry and his emergence as a key figure in the international avant-garde of the 1960s. inventory #38151.

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Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: Ian Hamilton Finlay: Selections
• Éditeur: University of California Press
• Date de parution: 2012
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0520270592
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780520270596
• Reliure: paperback
• Édition: First Edition.
• État de l'article: Very Good in Wrappers
• État de la jaquette: No Jacket

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Synopsis

This volume surveys the life and work of the Scottish poet Ian Hamilton Finlay, who is best known for his extraordinary garden, Little Sparta, a unique "poem of place" in which poetry, sculpture, and horticulture intersect. This book directs sustained attention to Finlay the verbal artist, revealing the full breadth and richness of his poetics. It illuminates the evolution from his early years of composing plays, stories, and lyrical poems to his discovery of Concrete poetry and his emergence as a key figure in the international avant-garde of the 1960s.

À propos de l?auteur

Ian Hamilton Finlay (1925-2006) was an acclaimed Scottish poet and artist. Alec Finlay is an artist and poet.