In Down and Up, Clarence Major makes use of American and European public places, their character and voice, to construct poems that explore the physical world juxtaposed sharply with the inner world. Sometimes realistic, sometimes dreamlike, these poems are dynamic, universal in theme and acknowledge a debt to the great tradition of modern American poetry. Clear eyed and painterly, they explore wherever Majors fancy takes him. His distinctive voice and compelling spatial and visual approach offer a connection between everyday human occurrences and the physical space they surround.
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Weight: 300g
Dimensions: 140 x 216mm
Publication Date: 30 Oct 2013
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Publication City/Country: United States
Language: English
ISBN13: 9780820345949
About Clarence Major
Clarence Major prizewinning poet painter and novelist is the author of twelve previous books of poetry. As a finalist for a National Book Award he won a Bronze Medal for his book Configurations: New and Selected Poems 19581998. Among other awards he is also the recipient of a National Council on the Arts Award a New York Cultural Foundation Award and the Stephen Henderson Poetry Award for Outstanding Achievement all three for poetry. His poetry has appeared in hundreds of anthologies and periodicals in English and in foreign languages such as several of the Norton anthologies including Postmodern Poetry in America; American Poetry Review; Kenyon Review; Callaloo; El Corno Emplumado (Mexico); East and West (India); Tuatara (Turkey); Vinduet (Norway); and Literatura na Swiecie (Poland). He is Distinguished Professor Emeritus at the University of California at Davis.