Chosen as a TLS Book of the Year 2019
This vital collection restores to print and prominence the work of Douglas Crase, a poet of revisionist invocations of the American landscape and transcendentalist tradition.
Douglas Crase is best known for a single book of poems, The Revisionist (1981). In the year of its publication John Ashbery urged Carcanet to consider it for British publication and now, thirty-eight years later, the book appears together with the chapbook entitled The Astropastorals (2017), which together constitute the core of Crase's poetic work.
He is among the crucial poets of his generation, but until now his work has not been widely available. An heir to Whitman, to Crane, to Ashbery, Crase deploys what he calls an American 'civil meter', throwing down a wry distinctively American prosodic gauntlet to readers and writers that is likely to be as discussed as Williams's 'variable foot'.
With an introduction by Mark Ford.
About the author
Mark Ford was born in 1962 in Nairobi, Kenya, and educated at Oxford. He is considered one of the U.K.’s most distinctive poets and his recent collection, Enter, Fleeing, appeared in 2018. A Selected Poems was published to acclaim in the U.S. in 2014. He has written two critical biographies, Raymond Roussel and the Republic of Dreams and Thomas Hardy: Half a Londoner. His latest volume of essays, This Dialogue of One, received the Poetry Foundation’s 2015 Pegasus Award for Poetry Criticism. He lives in London and teaches at University College London.
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