On the Atlantic Edge: A Geopoetics Project: No. 1

White, Kenneth

ISBN 10: 1905207085 / ISBN 13: 9781905207084

Published by Sandstone Press Ltd, 2006

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1905207085. 2006, bright clean copy, no markings, Professional booksellers since 1981.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: On the Atlantic Edge: A Geopoetics Project: No. 1
• Publisher: Sandstone Press Ltd
• Publication Date: 2006
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1905207085
• ISBN 13: 9781905207084
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: Very Good
• Seller catalogs:
  • POETRY

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Synopsis

KENNETH WHITE IS one of the most daring of Europe's writers, thinkers and teachers. Breaking out the bounds of a limiting culture he left Scotland for France with his wife, Marie-Claude, in 1967. There he held first the Chair of 20th Century Poetics at the Sorbonne, later founding the International Institute of Geopoetics which now has centers in various countries, including Scotland and England. This first book, On the Atlantic Edge, is the full text of his Highland lectures preceded by, in the way of introduction, his lecture to the Edinburgh International Book Festival in 2005.

About the Author

Kenneth White is one of the most daring of Europe's writers, thinkers and teachers. Breaking out of the bounds of a limiting culture, he left Scotland for France in 1967. There he held first the Chair of 20th Century Poetics at the Sorbonne, later founding the International Institute of Geopoetics which now has centres in various countries, including Scotland and England.