Packing up for paradise : selected poems 1946-1996 /
The theme of this copious selection from fifty years of James Broughton's poetry is Eros Ascendant and Transcendent. Since that's been Broughton's central theme all along, it's fair to say this book comprises his essential poetic testament.
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| Language: | English |
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Santa Rosa :
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1997.
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| Summary: | The theme of this copious selection from fifty years of James Broughton's poetry is Eros Ascendant and Transcendent. Since that's been Broughton's central theme all along, it's fair to say this book comprises his essential poetic testament. Broughton's verse is deceptively simple, spirit-deep. Innocence and double-entendre lyric foolery commingle in light verse' that revives the inspired nonsense / crazy wisdom line of Christopher Smart, William Blake and Edward Lear, while Other poems feature the out' glories of romantic ardor, reawakening the rhapsodic warmth of Whitman's Calamus. Whether writing in parable, fairy tale, fable, riddle, ballad, nursery rhyme, children's song, or up-to-the-minute graphic soul-confession, this sly master of a thousand tricks of form -- an ebullient Pan lurking in the libidinal weeds of postmodernism -- is also the one major contemporary poet of whom it can be said his work is almost entirely affirmative, even celebrative. However indecorous, irreverent, challenging of assumption, or audaciously disturbing, James Broughton's poetry always lands squarely on the side of life. |
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| Item Description: | The Cushing Library/Women & Gender Studies copy was acquired as part of The Don Kelly Research Collection of Gay Literature and Culture. The Cushing Library/Women & Gender Studies copy is signed by the author. |
| Physical Description: | 331 pages ; 24 cm Also issued online. |
| Bibliography: | Filmography: page 331. |
| ISBN: | 1574230522 9781574230529 1574230530 9781574230536 1574230549 9781574230543 |