{"product_id":"four-lectures-paperback-1","title":"Four Lectures - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eStephen Rodefer\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eGeoffrey Young\u003c\/b\u003e (Introduction by)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eOriginally published in the 1980s and out of print until now, Rodefer's four long poems are milestones in American avant-garde poetry.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eStephen Rodefer was an innovative, singular American writer--a student of Charles Olson's often associated with the Language poets but whose eclectic, energetic verse defies categorization and embraces a worldly lyricism all Rodefer's own. \u003ci\u003eFour Lectures\u003c\/i\u003e--first published in 1982 by Geoffrey Young's legendary press The Figures and long out of print--is widely considered to be his masterpiece. It is a book of four long poems that explore the radical possibilities of language through a generous, intimate collage of sights and sounds, voices and images, drawn from the poet's world. In city-block-like stanzas by turns philosophical and political, playful and playing for keeps, with freewheeling reference to everything from Shakespeare to Looney Tunes to Iceberg Slim and much else besides, Rodefer boldly reimagines the modern philosophical poem exemplified by T. S. Eliot's \u003ci\u003eFour Quartets\u003c\/i\u003e and John Ashbery's \u003ci\u003eSelf-Portrait in a Convex Mirror\u003c\/i\u003e for an inundating, fragmentary age in which there are \"more photographs in the world than there are bricks.\"\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eStephen Rodefer\u003c\/b\u003e (1940-2015) was an American poet and painter who lived in Paris and London. Born in Bellaire, Ohio, he knew many of the early Beat and Black Mountain poets, including Allen Ginsberg, Gregory Corso, Charles Olson, and Robert Creeley. Rodefer, one of the original Language poets, taught at many universities, including Cambridge University, UC Berkeley, UC San Diego, San Francisco State, and the American University of Paris. Rodefer was the first American poet to be offered a Fellowship at Cambridge University. He was the author of \u003ci\u003eOne or Two Love Poems from the White World, The Bell Clerk's Tears Keep Flowing, Four Lectures\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eOriflamme Day\u003c\/i\u003e (with poet Benjamin Friedlander), \u003ci\u003eEmergency Measures\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003ePassing Duration, Leaving, Erasures\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eLeft Under A Cloud\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eCall It Thought\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eMon Canard, \u003c\/i\u003e among other titles. His graphic work, \u003ci\u003eLanguage Pictures, \u003c\/i\u003e has been exhibited in recent years in New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, London, Paris, and Prague. He died in Paris. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eGeoffrey Young\u003c\/b\u003e is a poet and publisher. His press, The Figures, was the original publisher of \u003ci\u003eFour Lectures\u003c\/i\u003e.\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 80\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.3 x 8.1 x 6.7 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 22, 2025\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43508197228679,"sku":"9781681379326","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/2623\/2711\/files\/quzkXNFB1j9781681379326.webp?v=1763934912","url":"https:\/\/booksby.splitshops.com\/products\/four-lectures-paperback-1","provider":"Books by splitShops","version":"1.0","type":"link"}