New
book! (release date: December 2013)
Mary Barnard, American Imagist
by Sarah Barnsley
Uncovers
a new chapter in the story of American modernist poetry.
In
this book, Sarah Barnsley examines Barnard’s poetry and poetics
in the light of her plentiful correspondence with Ezra Pound, William
Carlos Williams, and others. Presenting Barnard as a “late
Imagist,” Barnsley links Barnard’s search for a poetry
grounded in native speech to efforts within American modernism for
new forms in the American grain. The first book on Barnard, and
the first to draw on the Barnard archives at Yale’s Beinecke
Library, Mary Barnard, American Imagist
unearths a fascinating and previously untold chapter of twentieth-century
American poetry.
“Clearly
structured and elegantly written, Mary Barnard, American Imagist
far exceeds any act of routine scholarly ‘recovery.’
In addition to giving full recognition to Barnard’s superb
skills as a translator of Sappho, Sarah Barnsley also makes a convincing
case for her original poetic output and for her contribution to
the evolution of American free verse.” — Peter
Nicholls, author of Modernisms: A Literary Guide, Second Edition
Sarah
Barnsley is Lecturer in the Department of English and Comparative
Literature at Goldsmiths, University of London.
Preview
of forthcoming book by Sarah Barnsley Mary Barnard, American Imagist,
(Albany, NY: SUNY Press, 2013), http://www.sunypress.edu/p-5776-mary-barnard-american-imagist.aspx
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