{"product_id":"w-s-graham-the-poem-as-art-object-hardcover","title":"W. S. Graham: The Poem as Art Object - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eDavid Nowell Smith\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOn the peripheries of UK poetry culture during his lifetime, W. S. Graham is now recognized one of the great poets of the twentieth century. In the first concerted study of Graham's poetics in a generation, David Nowell Smith argues that Graham is exemplary for the poetics of the mid-century: his extension of modernist explorations of rhythm and diction; his interweaving of linguistic and geographic places; his dialogue with the plastic arts; and the tensions that run through his work, between philosophical seriousness and play, solitude and sociality, regionalism and cosmopolitanism, the heft and evanescence of poetry's medium. Drawing on newly unearthed archival materials, Nowell Smith orients Graham's poetics around the question of the 'art object'. Graham sought to craft his poems into honed, finished 'objects'; yet he was also aware that the poem's 'finished object' is never wholly finished. Graham's work thus facilitates a broader reflection on language as a medium for\u003cbr\u003eart-making.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDavid Nowell Smith, \u003cem\u003eUniversity of East Anglia\u003c\/em\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eDavid Nowell Smith is Associate Professor of Poetry\/Poetics at the University of East Anglia. He is author of \u003cem\u003eSounding\/Silence\u003c\/em\u003e (Fordham University Press, 2013) and \u003cem\u003eOn Voice in Poetry\u003c\/em\u003e (Palgrave, 2015), as well as numerous articles on the fundamental concepts of poetics.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 240\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.83 x 8.69 x 5.79 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 31, 2022\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42157185040519,"sku":"9780192842909","price":179.55,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/2623\/2711\/files\/abff2de9528993137920bb86ecc50eb2.webp?v=1733249232","url":"https:\/\/booksby.splitshops.com\/products\/w-s-graham-the-poem-as-art-object-hardcover","provider":"Books by splitShops","version":"1.0","type":"link"}