Supplication: Selected Poems of John Wieners
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| Rating | : | 4.76 (752 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1940696194 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 216 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-08-19 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
Five Stars Sam the Sham Like O'Hara with a bit more gay sex and a little less art museum daydreaming.
In his hands, poems are at once wound,” tomb,” and bomb”sites of injury, elegy, and threat.Dan Chiasson, The New Yorker His poetry was unburdened and unbuoyed, free, breathless, reckless, and jarringly, frankly queer wicking graceful elegance from grim exile.Michael Andor Brodeur, Boston Globe This notion of the artist as a participant in some kind of sacramental exercise pervades Wieners’s verse, whose themes of abjection, rapture, sacrifice, and salvation mean that heroin, bulging cocks, and pleas to God mix freely together, all suffused with a profound sense of divine grace.
He is the author of seven collections of poetry, three one-act plays, and numerous broadsides, pamphlets, uncollected poems, and journals. "There is no doubt in my mind or in anyone's mind who knows these poems well that they are major American poetry and will be in anthologies for one hundred years, I mean that good."—Allen Ginsberg"A graceful rigor seems to be Wieners' natural mode; we feel the force of deliberation in his most free forms—he is never casual. Following Black Mountain's closure in 1956, he founded the small magazine Measure (1957–1962) and embarked on a peripatetic life, participating in poetry communities in Boston, San Francisco, New York, and Buffalo throughout the late 1950s and 1960s, before settling at 44 Joy Street in Boston in 1972. Includes poems that have previously never been published, the full text of the 1958 edition of his influential The Hotel Wentley Poems, plus poems from rare sources, facsimiles, notes, and collages by Wieners. In Wieners the glamor is in the word-music itself."—Denise LevertovSupplication: Selected Poems of John Wieners gathers work by one of the most significant poets of the Black Mountain and Beat generation. Robert Creeley described Wieners as "the greatest poet of emotion" of their time.. Upon graduating from Boston College in 1954, Wiener