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Vanishing Points

New Modernist Poems

Vanishing Points( )
Author: Mengham, Rod
Contribution by: Kinsella, John
Ashbery, John
Bergvall, Caroline
Brown, Lee Ann
Catling, Brian
Chaloner, David
Crozier, Andrew
Duncan, Andrew
Fisher, Roy
Fogarty, Lionel G.
Freer, Ulli
Gizzi, Peter
Hejinian, Lyn
Howe, Susan
Jarnot, Lisa
Leggott, Michele
Lopez, Tony
MacSweeney, Barry
Mendelssohn, Anna
Milne, Drew
Moxley, Jennifer
Patterson, Ian
Prynne, J. H.
Riley, Peter
Robertson, Lisa
Rodefer, Stephen
Ryan, Gig
Tranter, John
Ward, Geoff
Welish, Marjorie
Wilkinson, John
Editor: Kinsella, John
ISBN:978-1-876857-13-4
Publication Date:Jan 2005
Publisher:Salt Publishing
Book Format:Paperback
List Price:USD $19.95
Book Description:

This international anthology provides students and the general reader with an invaluable introduction to contemporary modernist poetry. Containing over thirty poets from the UK, USA, Canada, Australia and New Zealand, it presents an alternative vision of late 20th century poetic achievement: international, politically engaged and radical in vision.

Book Details
Pages:332
Detailed Subjects: Poetry / Anthologies (Multiple Authors)
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):5.5 x 8.5 x 0.742 Inches
Book Weight:1.096 Pounds
Author Biography
Mengham, Rod (Author)
John Ashbery was born on July 28, 1927 in Rochester, New York. He received a bachelor's degree from Harvard University and a master's degree in English from Columbia University. After graduating, he wrote advertising copy for Oxford University Press and McGraw-Hill.

In 1955, he won the Yale Younger Poets prize for his first collection, Some Trees. While on a Fulbright scholarship to Paris, he began writing art criticism and editing small journals. After about a decade in France, he returned to New York, where he became executive editor of ARTnews and continued to work as an arts journalist. After ARTnews was sold in 1972, he taught and wrote art criticism.

He wrote several collections of poetry including Houseboat Days, Flow Chart, And the Stars Were Shining, and Turandot and Other Poems. He received a Pulitzer Prize, a National Book Award, and a National Book Critics Circle Award in 1976 for Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror. He also received the Antonio Feltrinelli International Prize for Poetry in 1992, the Ambassador Book Lifetime Achievement Award in 2008, and the National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters in 2011. In 1993, the French government made him a Chevalier de L'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres. He also translated the poems of Pierre Martory. He died on September 3, 2017 at the age of 90.

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