Into the Ruins: Poems - Hardcover

Frederick Glaysher

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0967042127 ISBN 13: 9780967042121

Publisher: Earthrise Press, 1999

Synopsis

Beyond Postmodernism, Into the Ruins confronts much of the human experience left out of the balance by postmodern poetry, often compared to the Alexandrians and the Neoterics, when writers similarly concentrated on the minor themes of personal life, while ignoring the challenging experience of the public realm. Suffused with a global tragic vision, into the ruins of the 20th Century, Glaysher has his gaze fixed firmly on the 21st. 

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From the Author

Preface. "Now at the end of the twentieth century, far from withdrawing further into the self and into an obfuscating use of language, poets must turn to viewing and contemplating the real world, where men butcher and kill, love and hate, aspire and sometimes achieve. For out of our experience and contemplation of the past and present, a deeper understanding of history and of what it means to be a human being is now beginning to emerge, opening the way to a new future, in a new century. W. H. Auden once wrote that radical change in artistic style is contingent on "radical change in human sensibility." The unrelenting movement of modern times toward the oneness of humankind has sufficiently been made explicit--an epic movement that allows, produces, and requires a fundamental change in sensibility."

From the Back Cover

"A poet now whose work and dedication to a demanding and difficult art I admire; a man who has the gift of inner grace."--Robert Hayden

Edition details

• Publisher: Earthrise Press
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0967042127
• ISBN 13: 9780967042121
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 71