Doppler Effect - Softcover

Kinsella, John; Perloff, Marjorie

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1844710203 ISBN 13: 9781844710201

Publisher: Salt Pub, 2004

Synopsis

This new selection of John Kinsella's innovative poetry gathers work from over fifteen years. Including seminal works like Syzygy and Erratum/Frame(d) as well as more fugitive publications like The Radnoti Poems and The Benefaction, this is a key title for anyone wanting to understand the breadth of Kinsella's poetic vision.

About this title

About the Author:

John Kinsella is the author of over twenty books, including The Hunt (Bloodaxe, 1998) The Undertow: New & Selected Poems (Arc, UK), Visitants (Bloodaxe, 1999), and Wheatlands (2000). He is editor of the literary journal Salt, consultant editor of Westerly, and international editor of The Kenyon Review. He is a Fellow of Churchill College, Cambridge University, Adjunct Professor to Edith Cowan University, Western Australia, and the 2001 Richard L. Thomas Professor of Writing at Kenyon College.

Review:

John Kinsella's is a public voice, for the past decade one of the most consistently restless and intelligent in Australian poetry. Doppler Effect collects work published in small presses since 1993. The substantial selection of new work considered by the judges demonstrates a continuing engagement with the vertiginous qualities of contemporary experience. These are eloquent and inventive explorations of meaning by a widely-read poet - often, indeed, linguistic experiments devised to interrogate a world of genetic experimentation, virtual reality and environmental degradation. At his best, Kinsella's poems crack and fizz with fractured energy. -- Judith Rodriguez (Convenor), Alison Croggon and Rodney Hall * The CJ Dennis Prize for Poetry: Shortlist 2005 * Kinsella's poems are a very rare feat: they are narratives of feeling. Vivid sight - of landscapes, of animals, of human forms in distant light - becomes insight. There is, often, the shock of the new. But somehow awaited, even familiar. Which is the homecoming a a true poet. -- George Steiner John Kinsella ... frequently makes me think of John Ashbery: improbable fecundity, eclecticism, and a stand that fuses populism and elitism in poetic audience ... We are poised before the onset of what I prophesy will be a major art. -- Harold Bloom In Kinsella's poetry, it is precisely any settled difference between "traditional" and "experimental" that has collapsed. All poetic forms have become equally available for "experiment" to the extent that they can be tested for new soundings, new possibilities for meaning and its loss. -- Mark Wallace * Tinfish *

About this edition

• Publisher: Salt Pub
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 1844710203
• ISBN 13: 9781844710201
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 280