Grain of Sand in Lambeth
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- ISBN 9781647792053
- Weight: 454g
- Dimensions: 140 x 216mm
- Publication Date: 02 Dec 2025
- Publisher: University of Nevada Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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In A Grain of Sand in Lambeth, poetry becomes a lens through which to explore the complex, visionary world of William Blake. Drawing on Blake’ s own rejection of tradition and his relentless quest to challenge the boundaries of art, Geoffrey Babbitt confronts the tensions between genius and convention, life and death, light and dark.
Each poem in this collection inhabits a moment of Blake's life, offering a vivid glimpse into his unique perspective - a perspective that rejected the normative for the transformative power of imagination. From his visionary watercolors to his provocative views on oil painting, these poems draw readers into Blake's world, where reality and the unseen converge in prismatic intensity.
A Grain of Sand in Lambeth is an invitation to experience the world through Blake's eyes - a world where imagination reigns supreme and art is a living force.
Each poem in this collection inhabits a moment of Blake's life, offering a vivid glimpse into his unique perspective - a perspective that rejected the normative for the transformative power of imagination. From his visionary watercolors to his provocative views on oil painting, these poems draw readers into Blake's world, where reality and the unseen converge in prismatic intensity.
A Grain of Sand in Lambeth is an invitation to experience the world through Blake's eyes - a world where imagination reigns supreme and art is a living force.
Geoffrey Babbitt's poems and essays have appeared in North American Review, Pleiades, Colorado Review, DIAGRAM, Ben Jonson Journal, Notre Dame Review, Washington Square, Guesthouse, Cincinnati Review, and elsewhere. He holds an MFA and a PhD from the University of Utah, is an associate professor of English and creative writing and writing and rhetoric at Hobart and William Smith Colleges, and serves as editor in chief of Seneca Review and Seneca Review Books, for which he cofounded the Deborah Tall Lyric Essay Book Prize. He is the author of Appendices Pulled from a Study on Light.
