20th Century
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Product details
- ISBN 9781784102364
- Publication Date: 27 Oct 2016
- Publisher: Carcanet Press Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
- Language: English
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Selected Poems gathers writing from four decades of Nancy Cunard's life, some published here for the first time. The selection illuminates Cunard's transnational modernist project in full, from her early years as a coterie poet on the edges of Bloomsbury and avant-garde London, to her frontline activism during the Spanish Civil War and life-long fight against fascism in Europe and America, to her final years documented in poems written from hospitals and sanatoriums. Among the poems is Cunard's longer, psychogeographical work Parallax, published originally by the Hogarth Press, a response in part to T. S. Eliot's The Waste Land. Through her introduction and notes, editor Sandeep Parmar frames Cunard's complex legacy as a poet, publisher, and activist. A contribution to the wider feminist revision of modernism, this volume draws attention to Cunard's extraordinary, prismatic oeuvre, shaped by some of the twentieth century's most dramatic events.
Nancy Clara Cunard (10 March 1896 - 17 March 1965) was a writer, heiress and political activist. She was born into the British upper class and devoted much of her life to fighting racism and fascism. She became a muse to some of the 20th century's most distinguished writers and artists, including Aldous Huxley and Ezra Pound, who were among her lovers. She suffered from mental illness in later life and died aged 69 in the Hopital Cochin, Paris.Sandeep Parmar received her PhD from University College London. She has written extensively on the unpublished autobiographies of the modernist poet Mina Loy. She also edited Paris by Hope Mirrlees (Carcanet) and published a poetry collection, The Marble Orchard.
