Kenneth Fearing: Selected Poems: (American Poets Project #8) by Kenneth Fearing

Description: Kenneth Fearing: Selected Poems by Kenneth Fearing From The Library of America, three new titles in the exciting series that takes a fresh look at America's most enduring poetry. National Poetry Month brings three new titles—brilliant selections of John Greenleaf Whittier, Kenneth Fearing, and Muriel Rukeyser—as The Library of America continues its major new undertaking: a comprehensive series presenting the most significant American poetry, selected and introduced by today's most distinguished poets and critics. Elegantly designed and textually authoritative, the American Poets Project makes available the full range of American poetic accomplishment in compact and attractive editions, including volumes devoted to single poets and anthologies exploring particular themes, genres, and eras. Poet, journalist, and crime novelist, Kenneth Fearing (1902-61) wrote poems filled with the lingo of advertising and radio broadcasts and tabloid headlines, sidewalk political oratory, and the pop tunes on the jukebox. He evoked the jitters of the Depression and the war years in a voice alternately sardonic and melancholy, and depicted a fragmenting urban world bombarded by restless desires and unnerving fears. But this portraitist of his era also foreshadowed much that was to come in American writing. This volume reveals him as a vernacular prophet of media culture and consumerism, and at the same time as a lyric poet of tremendous gifts. FORMAT Hardcover LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description Poet, journalist, and crime novelist, Kenneth Fearing wrote poems filled with the jargon of advertising and radio broadcasts and tabloid headlines, sidewalk political oratory, and the pop tunes on the jukebox. Seeking out what he called "the new and complex harmonies . . . of a strange and still more complex age," he evoked the jitters of the Depression and the war years in a voice alternately sardonic and melancholy, and depicted a fragmenting urban world bombarded by restless desires and unnerving fears.But, in the words of editor Robert Polito, "Fearings poems carry no whiff of the curio or relic. If anything, his poems . . . insinuated an emerging media universe that poetry still only fitfully acknowledges." This new selection foregrounds the energy and originality of Fearings prophetic poetry, with its constant formal experimenting and its singular note of warning- "We must be prepared for anything, anything, anything." As a chronicler of mass culture and its discontents, Fearing is a strangely solitary figure who cannot be ignored.About the American Poets ProjectElegantly designed in compact editions, printed on acid-free paper, and textually authoritative, the American Poets Project makes available the full range of the American poetic accomplishment, selected and introduced by todays most discerning poets and critics. Author Biography Robert Politois a poet, biographer, and critic. His books includeDoubles,A Readers Guide to James Merrills The Changing Light at Sandover, andSavage Art- A Biography of Jim Thompson, for which he received the National Book Critics Circle Award. He directs the Graduate Writing Program at New School University in New York City. Details ISBN193108257X Author Kenneth Fearing Pages 230 Series American Poets Project Language English ISBN-10 193108257X ISBN-13 9781931082570 Media Book Format Hardcover Series Number 8 Year 2004 DEWEY 811.5 Short Title KENNETH FEARING SEL POEMS Residence US Birth 1902 Death 1961 Imprint The Library of America Place of Publication New York Country of Publication United States DOI 10.1604/9781931082570 US Release Date 2004-03-30 UK Release Date 2004-03-30 Subtitle (American Poets Project #8) Publisher The Library of America Publication Date 2004-03-30 Audience General NZ Release Date 2004-03-29 AU Release Date 2004-03-29 We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:137702360;

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