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

Hardback

Main Details

Title Kenneth Fearing: Selected Poems: (American Poets Project #8)
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Kenneth Fearing
SeriesAmerican Poets Project
Series part Volume No. 8
Physical Properties
Format:Hardback
Pages:230
Dimensions(mm): Height 196,Width 122
Category/GenrePoetry by individual poets
ISBN/Barcode 9781931082570
ClassificationsDewey:811.5
Audience
General

Publishing Details

Publisher The Library of America
Imprint The Library of America
Publication Date 30 March 2004
Publication Country United States

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, "Fearing's 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 Fearing's 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 Project Elegantly 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 today's most discerning poets and critics.

Author Biography

Robert Politois a poet, biographer, and critic. His books includeDoubles,A Reader's Guide to James Merrill's 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.