Contact us on (02) 8445 2300
For all customer service and order enquiries

Woodslane Online Catalogues

9780804011020 Academic Inspection Copy

Devils & Islands

Poems
  • ISBN-13: 9780804011020
  • Publisher: OHIO UNIVERSITY PRESS
    Imprint: OHIO UNIVERSITY PRESS
  • By Turner Cassity
  • Price: AUD $66.99
  • Stock: 0 in stock
  • Availability: This book is temporarily out of stock, order will be despatched as soon as fresh stock is received.
  • Local release date: 13/06/2007
  • Format: Hardback (216.00mm X 140.00mm) 72 pages Weight: 0g
  • Categories: Poetry by individual poets [DCF]
Description
Author
Biography
Reviews
Google
Preview
As he approaches eighty, Turner Cassity may finally be out of control. His hatchet has never fallen more lethally, meaning if you have the stomach for him he is more enjoyable than ever. Under the blade come Martha Graham, Johann Sebastian Bach, musicologists, tree huggers, Frank Gehry, folk music, folk art of all times and all places, folk... . There are, however, his unpredictable sympathies: Edith Wilson, skyscrapers, Pontius Pilate, Pilate's legionnaires. He obviously has a soft spot for Pop Culture, although he cannot avoid seeingit de haut en bas. As usual, he is all over the place geographically. One feels he would slash his wrists before he would write a poem about any city on the traditional Grand Tour. Manaus, Campeche, Trieste, Budapest (as destroyed by Godzilla)-these are his places. He has a disturbing willingness to write on both sides of an issue, resembling in this Bernard Shaw. You have to read very carefully to see whether he tips his hand. One looks forward to Mr. Cassity's posthumous poems, when he is beyond the reach of libel. For now, at least, we have Devils & Islands.
Turner Cassity was born in 1929 in Jackson, Mississippi. He is the author of seven collections of poetry and the recipient of numerous prizes and awards. He retired in 1991 as a catalog librarian at the R. W. Woodruff Library, Emory University.
"The world he so minutely examines may be decadent, but the work it provokes is an intellectual delight." - Booklist "He is surely one of the most jaundiced satirists around, but there is in his poems often something - some hint of human sympathy perhaps - that leaves the reader some hope of being forgiven or at least overlooked." - Donald Justice
Google Preview content