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Whilst the greatest effort has been made to ensure the quality of this text, due to the historical nature of this content, in some rare cases there may be minor issues with legibility. Cheered by the good man's words Along the shores of the river Evangeline's heart was sustained The house of the herdsman.
A father-to-be making deals with a god of his own design; the after-effects of a child's murder upon a suburban neighbourhood; a teenage boy negotiating the many perils of high-school while trying to hide his family's faith; a woman aiming a rifle at her rapist and his family and making split-second choices - these subjects and many more make up the debut collection from S.M. Field, a poet singular in fearlessness and execution. Through gritty language and stark imagery, S.M. Field navigates the messy complexities of relationships, politics, and personal struggles. From scathing critiques of societal norms to unapologetic reflections on identity and power dynamics, this collection will shock, provoke, and offer unique insights into our modern human condition.
The September-October 2024 issue of PN Review, one of the most outstanding poetry journals of our time.
"e;We have many poets of the First Book,"e; the poet and critic Louis Simpson remarked in 1957, describing a sense that the debut poetry collection not only launched the contemporary poetic career but also had come to define it. Surveying American poetry over the past hundred years, The First Book explores the emergence of the poetic debut as a unique literary production with its own tradition, conventions, and dynamic role in the literary market. Through new readings of poets ranging from Wallace Stevens and Marianne Moore to John Ashbery and Louise Gluck, Jesse Zuba illuminates the importance of the first book in twentieth-century American literary culture, which involved complex struggles for legitimacy on the part of poets, critics, and publishers alike. Zuba investigates poets' diverse responses to the question of how to launch a career in an increasingly professionalized literary scene that threatened the authenticity of the poetic calling. He shows how modernist debuts evoke markedly idiosyncratic paths, while postwar first books evoke trajectories that balance professional imperatives with traditional literary ideals. Debut titles ranging from Simpson's The Arrivistes to Ken Chen's Juvenilia stress the strikingly pervasive theme of beginning, accommodating a new demand for career development even as it distances the poets from that demand.Combining literary analysis with cultural history, The First Book will interest scholars and students of twentieth-century literature as well as readers and writers of poetry.
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