{"product_id":"the-holy-forest-collected-poems-of-robin-blaser-paperback","title":"The Holy Forest: Collected Poems of Robin Blaser - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eRobin Blaser\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eMiriam Nichols\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor), \u003cb\u003eRobert Creeley\u003c\/b\u003e (Foreword by)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRobin Blaser, one of the key North American poets of the postwar period, emerged from the \"Berkeley Renaissance\" of the 1940s and 1950s as a central figure in that burgeoning literary scene. \u003ci\u003eThe Holy Forest, \u003c\/i\u003enow spanning five decades, is Blaser's highly acclaimed lifelong serial poem. This long-awaited revised and expanded edition includes numerous published volumes of verse, the ongoing \"Image-Nation\" and \"Truth Is Laughter\" series, and new work from 1994 to 2004. Blaser's passion for world making draws inspiration from the major poets and philosophers of our time--from friends and peers such as Robert Duncan, Jack Spicer, Charles Olson, Charles Bernstein, and Steve McCaffery to virtual companions in thought such as Hannah Arendt, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Michel Foucault, and Jacques Derrida, among others. This comprehensive compilation of Blaser's prophetic meditations on the histories, theories, emotions, experiments, and countermemories of the late twentieth century will stand as the definitive collection of his unique and luminous poetic oeuvre.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eFront Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn his exquisite articulations of the flowers of associational thinking, Robin Blaser has turned knowledge into nowledge, the 'wild logos' of the cosmic companionship of the real.--Charles Bernstein, author of \u003ci\u003eRepublics of Reality: 1975-1995\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Blaser is a fine poet and a superb representative of a tradition that is still undervalued. His work is very important.\"--Charles Altieri\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Blaser plays his poems like an instrument. The glorious phrases that come forth ring with the memory of fairy tale, myth, gospel, but hang hard on to the modern world in his variety of measure and stress. Blaser is moving us all forward to a less certain result through a forest that has few resting places where the sun stays for longer than a minute.\"--Fanny Howe\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eRobin Blaser\u003c\/b\u003e is Professor Emeritus at Simon Fraser University. Among his many books are \u003ci\u003eThe Fire: Collected Essays of Robin Blaser \u003c\/i\u003e(UC Press), \u003ci\u003ePell Mell, \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eSyntax\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cb\u003eMiriam Nichols\u003c\/b\u003e is College Professor at University College of the Fraser Valley and editor of \u003ci\u003eEven on Sunday: Essays, Readings, and Archival Materials on the Poetry and Poetics of Robin Blaser.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 552\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.4 x 8.6 x 5.6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 10, 2008\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51782370525472,"sku":"9780520258259","price":57.51,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/a71129fe83d3d3fc720b4d7f63b48c6e.webp?v=1780569052","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/the-holy-forest-collected-poems-of-robin-blaser-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}