{"product_id":"w-s-graham-paperback","title":"W. S. Graham - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eW. S. Graham\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eMichael Hofmann\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn original collection of the best and most provocative work by Scottish poet W.S. Graham, the celebrated author of \"Nightfishing\" and \u003ci\u003eMalcolm Mooney's Land. \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Does it disturb the language?\" the Scottish poet W. S. Graham liked to ask about a poem. Graham's do--strangely, comically, beautifully. His career fell into two parts. The early work is rapt and wild and incantatory, and culminates in the tour de force of 1955, \u003ci\u003eThe Nightfishing\u003c\/i\u003e. Fifteen years of silence were then followed by an extraordinary late flowering: Graham's poems became stark, quizzical, and unsettling, a continual teasing examination of thought and feeling that is also an ongoing investigation into the nature and power of poetry, work that is at once metaphysical and intimate, wry and elegiac. In these late poems, Graham emerges as one of the true originals of poetry in English.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWilliam Sydney Graham\u003c\/b\u003e (1918-1986) was born into a working-class family in Greenock, Scotland, where his father worked as a shipbuilder. Graham studied structural engineering in Glasgow and philosophy and literature at Newbattle Abbey College outside of Edinburgh before publishing his first collection of poetry, \u003ci\u003eCage Without Grievance\u003c\/i\u003e, in 1942. In 1947, he received the Rockefeller Foundation's Atlantic Award for Literature and lectured at New York University for a year. Upon returning to the UK, he lived briefly in London, where he met T. S. Eliot, who accepted Graham's fourth collection, \u003ci\u003eThe White Threshold\u003c\/i\u003e, for publication by Faber and Faber in 1949. Shortly after, Graham moved to Cornwall where, with Agnes \"Nessie\" Dunsmuir, whom he married in 1954, he lived in a small village and often in great poverty for the rest of his life. A fifth book of poems, \u003ci\u003eThe Nightfishing\u003c\/i\u003e, appeared in 1955; a sixth, \u003ci\u003eMalcolm Mooney's Land\u003c\/i\u003e, in 1970. \u003ci\u003eAimed at Nobody\u003c\/i\u003e was published posthumously by Faber and Faber in 1993. In 2018, the centenary of Graham's birth was marked by the unveiling of a memorial stone outside the Writers' Museum in Edinburgh. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eMichael Hofmann\u003c\/b\u003e is a German-born, British-educated poet and translator. He is the author of two books of essays and five books of poems, most recently \u003ci\u003eOne Lark, One Horse\u003c\/i\u003e. Among his translations are plays by Bertolt Brecht and Patrick Süskind; the selected poems of Durs Grünbein and Gottfried Benn; and novels and stories by, among others, Franz Kafka; Peter Stamm; his father, Gert Hofmann; and fourteen books by Joseph Roth. He has translated several books for NYRB Classics, including Alfred Döblin's \u003ci\u003eBerlin Alexanderplatz\u003c\/i\u003e, Jakob Wassermann's \u003ci\u003eMy Marriage\u003c\/i\u003e, and Gert Ledig's \u003ci\u003eStalin Front\u003c\/i\u003e and edited \u003ci\u003eThe Voyage That Never Ends\u003c\/i\u003e, an anthology of writing by Malcolm Lowry. He teaches in the English Department at the University of Florida.\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 144\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.5 x 6.9 x 4.4 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e November 13, 2018\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51770368360736,"sku":"9781681372761","price":14.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/61a3f83d55a1038f2160327cc1d90dd6.webp?v=1780370318","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/w-s-graham-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}