Otherworldly, uncanny, melancholy, there like the past, like the present, the place (not the people) remains: a glimpse, a flicker, a trick of light that excavates the dark, the endless accretion of shadows. What is to be found there? Desire like a dream of paradise. Ekphrasis is rarely this eclectic, this moving. - Eric Pankey
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Weight: 119g
Dimensions: 140 x 216mm
Publication Date: 15 Sep 2014
Publisher: Shearsman Books
Publication City/Country: United Kingdom
Language: English
ISBN13: 9781848613492
About Jon Thompson
Born in Columbus Ohio Jon Thompson was educated at University College Dublin where he received a B.A. in English Language and Literature and an M.A. in English and American Literature (with a thesis on Robert Creeley). He did a Ph.D. at LSU and has taught at North Carolina State University ever since where he is now a Professor in the English Department. His poetry has appeared in many journals including The American Literary Review Blackbox Manifold Colorado Review The Common Hayden's Ferry Review The Iowa Review New Ohio Review Shearsman magazine and The White Review. His first collection of poems was The Book of the Floating World (Parlor Press 2007). His next book published by Shearsman Books in 2009 was a collection of lyrical essays After Paradise: Essays on the Fate of American Writing. He also provided an Introduction for D.H. Lawrence's Studies in Classic American Literature in the Shearsman Classics series which appeared in 2011. Thompson also edits the international online journal Free Verse: A Journal of Contemporary Poetry & Poetics and Free Verse Editions which now has over 30 titles on its list.