LEADER 03696nam 22005292 450 001 9910782249003321 005 20170817094544.0 010 $a1-78694-536-3 010 $a1-84631-422-4 035 $a(CKB)1000000000541224 035 $a(EBL)380596 035 $a(OCoLC)476209196 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000071290 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11107310 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000071290 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10069479 035 $a(PQKB)10658478 035 $a(UkCbUP)CR9781846314223 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0001992714 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC380596 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000541224 100 $a20170307d2000|||| uy| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 04$aThe thing about Roy Fisher $ecritical studies /$fedited by John Kerrigan and Peter Robinson$b[electronic resource] 210 1$aLiverpool :$cLiverpool University Press,$d2000. 215 $a1 online resource (x, 377 pages) $cdigital, PDF file(s) 225 1 $aLiverpool English texts and studies 300 $aTitle from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 11 Aug 2017). 311 $a0-85323-515-5 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aTitle Page; Contents; Notes on Contributors; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Introduction; 1: Roy Fisher on Location; 2: 'Menacing Works in my Isolation': Early Pieces; 3: The Work of a Left-Handed Man; 4: Osmotic Investigations and Mutant Poems: An Americanist Poetic; 5: 'Making Forms with Remarks':The Prose; 6: Cutting-Edge Poetics: Roy Fisher's 'Language Book'; 7: A Burning Monochrome: Fisher's Block; 8: 'The Secret Laugh of the World'; 9: 'Exhibiting Unpreparedness': Self,World, and Poetry; 10: 'Coming into their Own': Roy Fisher and John Cowper Powys 327 $a11: A Furnace and the Life of the Dead 12: Last Things; Roy Fisher: A Bibliography; General Index 330 $aThe Thing about Roy Fisher is the first critical book to be dedicated to the work of this outstanding poet, who has won many admirers for his explorations of the modem city, his experiments with perception and sensory experience, his jazz-inspired prose, and his political and cultural comedies. The collection brings together a distinguished group of contributors: poets and critics, from several generations, active on both sides of the Atlantic. In a dozen newly commissioned essays they discuss the entire range of Roy Fisher's work, from its fraught beginnings in the 1950s through such major texts of the 1960s and 1970s as City, The Ship's Orchestra and 'Wonders of Obligation', to A Furnace, his 1980s masterpiece, and beyond. The essays are closely engaged with the fabric of Fisher's verse, but they also bring into view a fascinating array of connections between contemporary poetry and philosophy, psychology; the visual arts and jazz. The Thing about Roy Fisher ends with a full and up-to-date bibliography; an essential starting point for further study of this versatile and complex writer, whose centrality and importance within modern English and European poetry is now more than ever apparent. Kerrigan and Robinson's collection provides a helpful introduction to Roy Fisher's work, and will be necessary reading for anyone with a live interest in modern poetry. 410 0$aLiverpool English texts and studies. 676 $a821/.914 702 $aKerrigan$b John 702 $aRobinson$b Peter$f1953- 801 0$bUkCbUP 801 1$bUkCbUP 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910782249003321 996 $aThe thing about Roy Fisher$93703181 997 $aUNINA