Imagism Essays On Initiation Impact And Influence (Ezra Pound Center for Literature Book) - Softcover

Gery Kempton Stoneback

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1608011135 ISBN 13: 9781608011131

Publisher: University of New Orleans Press, 2003

Synopsis

As Helen Carr writes in her Introduction, “Imagism has always been popular with readers.” True then and true now. Strangely enough, Imagism has not grown old in the century after its birth, and these essays about Imagists of old help to explain why it continues to attract readers in the 21stcentury. The movement that sprung up so haphazardly turned out to be the wellspring of Modernism in literature, discernible not only in Ezra Pound’s poetry but in Ernest Hemingway’s prose. Imagism begat Modernism, and its beneficial influence spread to writers as diverse as T.S. Eliot, D.H. Lawrence, and Wallace Stevens. These essays, by showing once more how wide-ranging Imagist innovation was, are stimulating and readable--like Imagism itself.

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About the Author

John Gery is a poet, critic, editor, and collaborative translator. Originally from Lititz, Pennsylvania, he has lived on both coasts as well as in the Midwest but has spent much of the last thirty years in New Orleans. Gery's poetry ranges from formal verse and narrative structures to lyrical poems engaged in language play, irony and paradox. His books of poetry include, among others, Charlemagne: A Song of Gestures (1983), The Enemies of Leisure (1995), American Ghost: Selected Poems (1999), Davenport's Version (2003), A Gallery of Ghosts (2008), Lure (2012), and Have at You Now! (2014). His work has appeared in journals throughout the U.S., as well as in Europe and Canada, and he has been translated into seven languages.

Edition details

• Publisher: University of New Orleans Press
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 1608011135
• ISBN 13: 9781608011131
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 218