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Records of an Incitement to Silence

ISBN-13: 9781800171282
Publisher: CARCANET PRESS
Imprint: CARCANET PRESS
By Gregory Woods
Price: AUD $32.99
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Local release date: 27/09/2021
Format: Paperback (216.00mm X 135.00mm) 112 pages Weight: 157g
Categories: Poetry by individual poets [DCF]

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Author Biography
Google Preview: Gregory Woods is the leading British critic and historian of gay literature. He has published five previous Carcanet poetry collections, the first being We Have The Melon (1992). Ten years in the making, Records of an Incitement to Silence revisits many of the original themes, but here Woods brings them closer to the endgame. The sequence of stripped-down, unrhymed sonnets, and the longer poems that accentuate it, suggest a missing narrative: the growth of the individual in a world of upheaval, the search for and loss of love, the formation of memories, the limits of what can truthfully be said, the traces we leave and the chance of their survival. One of my creative habits, Woods writes, is the wringing-out of a single form until its bone dry: the unrhymed sonnets; the monosyllabic syllabics of the long poem "Hat Reef Loud"; the incompatible yoking-together of iambic pentameter and dactylic trimeter in the long poem "No Title Yet". His formal stringency intensifies the poems emotional and erotic charge, their celebration and their plaint.; Gregory Woods is the author of Articulate Flesh: Male Homo-eroticism and Modern Poetry (1987), A History of Gay Literature: The Male Tradition (1998) and Homintern: How Gay Culture Liberated the Modern World (2016), all from Yale University Press. He began his teaching career at the University of Salerno in 1980. In 1998 he became the first Professor of Gay & Lesbian Studies in the UK, at Nottingham Trent University, where he is still Professor Emeritus.; Google Preview content