The Holy Forest: Collected Poems of Robin BlaserRobin Blaser, one of the key North American poets of the postwar period, emerged from the "Berkeley Renaissance" of the 1940s and 1950s as a central figure in that burgeoning literary scene. The Holy Forest, now spanning five decades, is Blaser's highly acclaimed lifelong serial poem. This long-awaited revised and expanded edition includes numerous published volumes of verse, the ongoing "Image-Nation" and "Truth Is Laughter" series, and new work from 1994 to 2004. Blaser's passion for world making draws inspiration from the major poets and philosophers of our time—from friends and peers such as Robert Duncan, Jack Spicer, Charles Olson, Charles Bernstein, and Steve McCaffery to virtual companions in thought such as Hannah Arendt, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Michel Foucault, and Jacques Derrida, among others. This comprehensive compilation of Blaser's prophetic meditations on the histories, theories, emotions, experiments, and countermemories of the late twentieth century will stand as the definitive collection of his unique and luminous poetic oeuvre. |
Contents
Cups 112 19591960 | 29 |
The Park 1960 | 47 |
The Faerie Queene 1961 | 57 |
The Moth Poem 19621964 | 65 |
ImageNations 1 4 19621964 | 87 |
Les Chimères versions of Gérard de Nerval 19631964 | 95 |
Charms 19641968 | 109 |
Pindar 1971 | 139 |
Robert Duncan 1988 | 333 |
Streams II 19861991 | 341 |
Exody 19901993 | 367 |
Notes 19942000 | 397 |
Dante Alighiere 1997 | 435 |
Wanders 20012002 | 459 |
So 2003 | 487 |
Oh 2004 | 495 |
ImageNations 514 and Uncollected Poems 19651974 | 147 |
Streams I 19741976 | 189 |
Syntax 19791981 | 201 |
Pell Mell 19811988 | 243 |
AFTERWORD | 507 |
INDEX OF TITLES AND FIRST LINES | 511 |
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