In a country where much of the prominent poetry seeks to affirm the
fleeting present and its changing values, John Peck’s poetry comes
as an important, if unlikely, gift. Peck’s verse deals the cards of
the fragmentary, ideogramic, juxtapositional, and elliptical through
the deck of normally discursive syntax. Echoing late high Modernism,
Peck’s work, in the words of novelist Joseph McElroy, is “a way of
seeing things,” confident “in the packed vividness of the
referential.” Avoiding the narrow identity- or group-specific
viewpoint of some of his contemporaries, Peck invites us to enter the
larger humanscape and unearth with him unnoticed connections to our
shared past and to one another. In Contradance, his ninth collection,
Peck’s passion for inquiry and historical reflection has never been
stronger or more beautifully embodied.
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ISBN
9780226652931
Publisert
2018
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University of Chicago Press
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Engelsk
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Digital bok
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