Library of America, Sachbücher, Kenneth Fearing: Selected Poems (Englisch, Kenneth Fearing, 2004)
19,44 €
Poet, journalist, and crime novelist, Kenneth Fearing wrote poems filled with the jargon of advertising and radio broadcasts and tabloid headlines, sidewalk political oratory, and the pop tunes on the jukebox. Seeking out what he called &ldquo the new and complex harmonies . . . of a strange and still more complex age,&rdquo he evoked the jitters of the Depression and the war years in a voice alternately sardonic and melancholy, and depicted a fragmenting urban world bombarded by restless desires and unnerving fears. But, in the words of editor Robert Polito, &ldquo Fearing&rsquo s poems carry no whiff of the curio or relic. If anything, his poems . . . insinuated an emerging media universe that poetry still only fitfully acknowledges.&rdquo This new selection foregrounds the energy and originality of Fearing&rsquo s prophetic poetry, with its constant formal experimenting and its singular note of warning: &ldquo We must be prepared for anything, anything, anything.&rdquo As a chronicler of mass culture and its discontents, Fearing is a strangely solitary figure who cannot be ignored. About the American Poets Project Elegantly designed in compact editions, printed on acid-free paper, and textually authoritative, the American Poets Project makes available the full range of the American poetic accomplishment, selected and introduced by today&rsquo s most discerning poets and critics.
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