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The White Stones
  • Published: 15 May 2016
  • ISBN: 9781590179796
  • Imprint: NY Review Books
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 152
  • RRP: $35.00
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The White Stones

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19 Apr 2016
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15 May 2016
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This is the first US appearance of J. H. Prynne's most important work, The White Stones, a key document in the British Poetry Revival of the 1960s and pinnacle work in this important, avant garde poet's vast oeuvre.

J. H. Prynne is Britain’s leading late-modernist poet. His work, as it has emerged since the 1960s, when he was close to Charles Olson and Edward Dorn, is marked by a remarkable combination of lyricism and abstraction, at once austere and playful. The White Stones is a book that is central to Prynne’s career and poetics, and it constitutes an ideal introduction to the achievement and vision of a legendary but in America still little-known contemporary master.
  • Published: 15 May 2016
  • ISBN: 9781590179796
  • Imprint: NY Review Books
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 152
  • RRP: $35.00
Categories:

Praise for The White Stones

"[Prynne's poetry] can induce the same combinations of fear and wonder once associated with the sublime...It is undeniable that his poetry offers both pleasures and challenges of an unusually complex kind: and it is for precisely this reason that many people will testify, without hyperbole or sentimentality, that his poetry has changed their lives." --Robert Potts, The Guardian

"At best, Prynne stimulates us to attend diligently to ramifying webs of discourse and implication... Certainly, his poems don't serve up solace or easy pleasures...Prynne's work is challenging, yes, but also funny... politically incisive, erotic, and philosophical. It puts into play the most diverse range of discourses imaginable and doesn't make it easy for the reader to decide how or even with what attitude to respond....Prynne's work reminds us that poetry, besides offering a variety of sensorial and emotional pleasures, can be something with which to think." -Forrest Gander, The Chicago Review