David Markson: Collected Poems (Dalkey Archive, First Edition)

Markson, David

ISBN 10: 1564780333 / ISBN 13: 9781564780331

Published by Dalkey Archive Press, 1993

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: David Markson: Collected Poems (Dalkey Archive, First Edition)
• Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
• Publication Date: 1993
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1564780333
• ISBN 13: 9781564780331
• Binding: paperback
• Edition: First Edition.
• Condition: As New
• Weight: 12 ounces

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Synopsis

"Markson is regarded as an inventive literary stylist in the manner of James Joyce, William Gaddis, and Malcolm Lowry . . . and many critics have commented that his compressed, highly allusive fiction verges on poetry." In view of such a judgment (from Contemporary Literary Criticism), it should surely come as less than a surprise that Markson has indeed written poems through much of his career, the best of which are gathered here for the first time. "Some are only playful," he indicates in a casually self-deprecating foreword, while certain others "are lyrics of a type generally deemed antiquated." Nonetheless, both these and his more ambitious efforts bear witness to Markson's lifelong creative absorption with such subjects as literature, art, music, the creative process, love and its loss, death, male-female relationshipsnot to mention drink, sex, even certain cherished aspects of the female anatomy. And, any "surprise" here, then, is finally perhaps only at Markson's stunning poetic variants on those extraordinary qualities that vitalize his prose.

About the Author

David Markson's novel Wittgenstein's Mistress was acclaimed by David Foster Wallace as "pretty much the high point of experimental fiction in this country." His other novels, including Reader's Block, Springer's Progress, and Vanishing Point, have expanded this high reputation. His novel The Ballad of Dingus Magee was made into the film Dirty Dingus Magee, which starred Frank Sinatra, and he is also the author of three crime novels. Born in Albany, New York, he has long lived in New York City.