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Record Nr.

UNINA9910462929303321

Autore

Finlay Ian Hamilton

Titolo

Ian Hamilton Finlay : Selections / / Ian Hamilton Finlay; Alec Finlay

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berkeley, CA : , : University of California Press, , [2012]

©2012

ISBN

1-283-86029-5

0-520-95000-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (334 p.)

Collana

Poets for the Millennium ; ; 8

Disciplina

821.914

Soggetti

Concrete poetry

Finlay, Ian Hamilton

Landscape

Landscape -- Poetry

POETRY / General

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- CONTENTS -- Acknowledgments -- Autobiographical Sketch -- Introduction: Picking the Last Wild Flower -- Early Writings -- Later Writings -- Notes -- A Note on the Critical Heritage -- Selected Bibliography -- Credits

Sommario/riassunto

This volume surveys the life and work of the Scottish poet Ian Hamilton Finlay, who is best known for his extraordinary garden, Little Sparta, a unique "poem of place" in which poetry, sculpture, and horticulture intersect. This book directs sustained attention to Finlay the verbal artist, revealing the full breadth and richness of his poetics. It illuminates the evolution from his early years of composing plays, stories, and lyrical poems to his discovery of Concrete poetry and his emergence as a key figure in the international avant-garde of the 1960's.