Vanishing Points (Anthologies and Gift Books) [Paperback]

Rod Mengham (Editor), John Kinsella (Editor)

Book Description

Series: Anthologies and Gift Books | Publication Date: December 15, 2004

This major international anthology provides students and the general reader with an invaluable introduction to contemporary modernist poetry. Containing over thirty poets from Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the UK and USA, this selection offers a powerful vision of late-Twentieth-century poetic achievement: international, politically- and socially-engaged, and radical in imaginative vision and practice. It celebrates risk, resistance, protest and diversity within poetry, reaching across national and cultural boundaries.

Editorial Reviews

Review

Amidst the plethora of anthologies which flood the British market there are two which stand out, distinguished, alone, separate: the first "Conductors of Chaos" (Picador 1996) is now out of print and the second is this recently published delight from Salt Publishing, "Vanishing Points". Buy it! Keep it with you. Dip into it time and time again. -- Ian Brinton The Use of English "Vanishing Points" [...] achieves an informative line, which looks both ways as it crosses and spans an international reach. The poems work best when self-conscious and projected imports coincide in order to build, not merely deconstruct, sense. Andrew Crozier's poetry represents a persuasive recombination of old and new lyric tones, as words embody falling back through endnotes to stand for the uptake of fresh insight: 'Divisions interposed ... rise to the surface.' -- Sarah Wardle The Guardian

About the Author

Rod Mengham lives and works in Cambridge. He has written books on D;Henry Green, Emily Bronte, Charles Dickens, Thomas Hardy and on D;language and cultural history; he has also edited books on violence and D;the artistic imagination, and on modernist and contemporary fiction. D;He is the editor of the Equipage series of poetry pamphlets and co-editor D;and co-translator of the anthology of contemporary Polish poetry, Altered State (Arc, 2003). His own poems have been published in Unsung: New and Selected Poems (Salt, 2001) and with photographs by Marc Atkins in Parleys and Skirmishes (Ars Cameralis, 2007). John Kinsella is the author of over twenty books, including The Silo (FACP, 1995), The Undertow: New & Selected Poems (Arc, 1996), The Hunt (Bloodaxe, 1998), Visitants (Bloodaxe, 1999), and Wheatlands (with Dorothy Hewett, FACP, 2000), The Hierarchy of Sheep (Bloodaxe/FACP, 2000/2001), and Auto (Salt, 2000). He is editor of the international literary journal Salt, a consultant editor of Westerly (CSAL, University of Western Australia), Cambridge correspondent for Overland (Melbourne, Australia), and international editor of the American journal The Kenyon Review. He is a Fellow of Churchill College, Cambridge University, Adjunct Professor to Edith Cowan University, Western Australia, and Professor of English at Kenyon College. Peripheral Light: Selected and New Poems is due out with W.W. Norton in 2003.

Product Details

• Paperback: 332 pages
• Publisher: Salt Publishing (December 15, 2004)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1876857137
• ISBN-13: 978-1876857134
• Product Dimensions: 8.4 x 5.3 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 14.9 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #5,506,028 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)