{"product_id":"j-h-prynne-poems-2016-2024-paperback","title":"J.H. Prynne: Poems 2016-2024 - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJ. H. Prynne\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eCovering the most productive period of J.H. Prynne's career, this new volume collects all of the recent poetry of Britain's leading late Modernist poet.\u003c\/b\u003e Prynne's austere yet playful poetry challenges our sense of the world, not by any direct address to the reader but by showing everything in a different light, enacting slips and changes of meaning through shifting language. Not since the late work of Ezra Pound and the Maximus series of Charles Olson have the possibilities of poetry been so fundamentally questioned and extended as they are in the life work of J.H. Prynne. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen his \u003cem\u003ePoems\u003c\/em\u003e was first published in 1999, it was immediately acclaimed as a landmark in modern poetry. Four further collections were added to the second edition of \u003cem\u003ePoems\u003c\/em\u003e in 2005, followed by a further seven along with a group of uncollected poems to the third edition of \u003cem\u003ePoems\u003c\/em\u003e (2015).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe decade since\u003ci\u003e Poems \u003c\/i\u003e(2015) has been the most productive period of Prynne's life, with over thirty limited editions published between 2017 and 2024. To have added these to a fourth edition of \u003ci\u003ePoems\u003c\/i\u003e would have more than doubled the size of that volume. \u003ci\u003ePoems 2016-2024\u003c\/i\u003e is therefore a separate, supplementary edition of his later work, including, except for minor corrections, the mostly unchanged contents of 36 texts written since \u003ci\u003ePoems\u003c\/i\u003e (2015), from \u003ci\u003eEach to Each\u003c\/i\u003e (2017) to \u003ci\u003eAlembic Forest\u003c\/i\u003e (2024), as well as the corrected 2023 text of \u003ci\u003eAt Raucous Purposeful\u003c\/i\u003e (2022). The 26 \u003ci\u003eImpromptus\u003c\/i\u003e comprising \u003ci\u003eMemory Working, \u003c\/i\u003e originally published by Face Press in three separate editions in 2020 and 2021, appear here as a complete sequence.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJ.H. Prynne\u003c\/b\u003e is Britain's leading late Modernist poet. His first retrospective \u003ci\u003ePoems\u003c\/i\u003e (1982) was followed by three expanded editions from Bloodaxe, in 1999, 2005 and 2015, with \u003ci\u003ePoems 2016-2024\u003c\/i\u003e following as a separate supplementary volume in 2024. Separate editions have also been published of two of his collections, \u003ci\u003eThe White Stones\u003c\/i\u003e (1969) from New York Review Books in 2016, and \u003ci\u003eThe Oval Window\u003c\/i\u003e (1983) from Bloodaxe in 2018. \u003ci\u003ePoems 2016-2024\u003c\/i\u003e includes 36 texts, from \u003ci\u003eEach to Each\u003c\/i\u003e (2017) to \u003ci\u003eAlembic Forest\u003c\/i\u003e (2024), all previously only available in limited editions from small presses. Prynne's most productive decade has also seen the publication of prose works including \u003ci\u003eWhitman and Truth\u003c\/i\u003e (2022) and editions of his correspondence with Charles Olson (2017) and Douglas Oliver (2022). His two-volume \u003ci\u003eCollected Prose\u003c\/i\u003e is forthcoming from OUP (New York). Born in 1936, Prynne was Cambridge University's most influential don in English studies since F.R. Leavis.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 752\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 2 x 9.2 x 6.1 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 03, 2024\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42152263286919,"sku":"9781780376929","price":50.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/2623\/2711\/files\/43dc60b737a7009e74402ea5ee03a1bc_581a4662-87b2-4017-8bda-5d6a6f8f9fac.webp?v=1733212989","url":"https:\/\/booksby.splitshops.com\/products\/j-h-prynne-poems-2016-2024-paperback","provider":"Books by splitShops","version":"1.0","type":"link"}