- Paperback: 254 pages
- Publisher: Enitharmon Press (Oct 17 1995)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1870612345
- ISBN-13: 978-1870612340
- Product Dimensions: 20.8 x 13.7 x 2.3 cm
- Shipping Weight: 386 g
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'It's plain that Gascoyne's oeuvre is ripe for reappraisal: Enitharmon's Selected is a timely publication.' Kevin Johnson, Poetry Review'Anybody concerned to read one of the best, though least trumpeted, living poets should have this on their bookshelves.' Alan Brownjohn, The Sunday Times
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Includes a substantial selection of Gascoyne's poems from the early 1930s to the present. Included are examples of his earliest work in Roman Balcony (1932, published when he was sixteen) to H”lderlin's Madness (1938); all poems from his most famous volume, Poems 1937-1942, and the best-known poems from his post-war collections, including Night Thoughts (1956) in its entirety. There is a section of light verse and one section of recent poems. He established his name when he was a schoolboy, and his association with the Surrealists drew him into the orbit of Max Ernst, Andr‚ Breton, and Dal¡ in Paris. He lived in France in the 1930s, and again in the 50s and 60s, and is revered there, both as a poet and as a translator.
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This review is from: Selected Poems (Paperback)
David Gascoyne, perhaps the most neglected British poet in history, accomplished with his fevered poetic career what most of us would be writers can only dream of: a record of his visionary psyche irrevocably intertwined with the chaos of his generation--the era of WWII, the Cold War, and the Great Depression.The Catholic equivalent of a Rimbaud or Baudelaire, Gascoyne's tragic life and career as poet maudite par excellance and search for God amidst the ashes of a nearly destroyed world is reflected unconsciously in the painstaking passion of his work: "What day can ever end/the night of those from whom/God turns away his face/or what rays finger pierce/The depths of wherein they drown?" ("Noctambules", pg 121).
The obvious didacticism of Gascoyne's poetry does not overshadow his explosive poetic gift, given full expression in mind bending and gorgeous turns of phrase such as the following: "the shadows in the pools turn grey/the pearls dissolve in the shadow/and I return to you.." (The Cage, pg 43).
This collection spans from Gascoyne's early career as a youthful convert to Surrealism right on through to his most defining work, "Night Thoughts", to the intermittently broken silence represented by two decades of depression and madness resulting from amphetamine abuse.
David Gascoyne is the best kept secret of poetry's vast world, and it is high time he emerges from the shadows he fought so valiantly against.
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