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On Autumn Lake - Douglas Crase

On Autumn Lake

Collected Essays

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Buch | Softcover
344 Seiten
2022
Nightboat Books (Verlag)
978-1-64362-143-2 (ISBN)
CHF 33,90 inkl. MwSt
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On Autumn Lake collects four decades of prose (1976-2020) by renowned poet and beloved cult figure Douglas Crase, with an emphasis on idiosyncratic essays about quintessentially American poets and the enduring transcendentalist tradition.



Douglas Crase’s prose is rich with conviction and desire, inspiring as John Yau wrote, “the kind of attention usually reserved for poetry.” His essays, written as rhythmically as poems, take a personal rather than abstract approach, offering committed and sometimes intimate portraits of John Ashbery, James Schuyler, Lorine Niedecker, and others. With generosity of spirit, Crase shares his devotion to poetry, democracy, and landscape in this handsome volume that greatly enlarges the available body of his work and will be seen as the essential complement to his collected poems.

Douglas Crase is an independent poet and essayist. He was born in Michigan in 1944, raised on a farm, and educated at Princeton. A former speechwriter, he was described in the Times Literary Supplement as “the unusual case of a contemporary poet whose most public, expansive voice is his most authentic,” and in Hyperallergic as “that rare figure in American letters: a subversive who challenges the received wisdom promulgated in English and American literature departments from sea to shining sea.” His first book, The Revisionist, was named a Notable Book of the Year in 1981 by The New York Times and nominated for a National Book Critics Circle Award and a National Book Award in poetry. His collected poems, The Revisionist and The Astropastorals, was a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award and named a Book of the Year for 2019 in both the Times Literary Supplementand Hyperallergic. His dual biography of influential aesthetes Rupert Barneby and Dwight Ripley, Both: A Portrait in Two Parts, was nominated for a Lambda Literary Award and named a Stonewall Honor Book by the American Library Association. He has received a Whiting Writers’ Award, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and a MacArthur “genius” award. He lives with his husband, Frank Polach, in New York and Carley Brook, Pennsylvania.

I. Introduction II. Four Saints
On Autumn Lake: John Ashbery 

A Voice Like the Day: James Schuyler 

Make It True: James Schuyler 

The Poet’s So-called Prose: Marianne Moore 

A Schuyler Ballade 

Note on Niedecker 

Free and Clean: Lorine Niedecker 

Niedecker and the Evolutional Sublime 

III. How Emerson Avails 

How Emerson Avails 

A Brief History of Memes 

Native Genius: Richard Poirier 

An Outsider’s Introduction to Emerson 

IV. The Prophetic Ashbery 

Remarks on Ashbery 

The Prophetic Ashbery 

Justified Times: John Ashbery 

V. The New York School Revisited 

Unlikely Angel: Dwight Ripley and the New York School 

The Drawings of Dwight Ripley 

A Hidden History of the Avant-Garde 

The New York School Revisited
VI. Traditions Ahead
Poetry and the Menace Ahead 

The Enduring Influence of a Painter’s Garden: Robert Dash 

Statement on Form 

The Pyrrhic Measure in American Poetry: John Koethe, Marjorie Welish 

The Applause of Science: George Bradley 

The Civic Metonymy of Michael Schiavo
Three Introductions: Ann Lauterbach, Gerrit Henry, Marjorie Welish 

Apertures on a Virtual Field: Michelle Jaffé 

Deborah Rosenthal’s Art of Deep Time 

Mark Milroy Paints My Portrait 

In the Empire of the Air: Donald Britton 

VII. Updates 

VIII. Appendix: A Conversation with Ian Pople 

IX. Index

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Verlagsort New York
Sprache englisch
Maße 127 x 215 mm
Themenwelt Literatur Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
Literatur Essays / Feuilleton
Literatur Lyrik / Dramatik Lyrik / Gedichte
Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Anglistik / Amerikanistik
Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft
ISBN-10 1-64362-143-2 / 1643621432
ISBN-13 978-1-64362-143-2 / 9781643621432
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