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Contradance

By John Peck

Book information

Publisher
University of Chicago Press
Year
2011
ISBN
9780226652931
DOI
10.7208/9780226652931
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (2002451 bytes)
Pages
96\92
Library
degruyter.com
Time added
2023-08-15 04:24:18

Description

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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