Presences: A Text for Marisol, A Critical Edition (Recencies Series: Research and Recovery in Twentieth-Century American Poetics) - Hardcover

Creeley, Robert

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0826358985 ISBN 13: 9780826358981

Publisher: University of New Mexico Press, 2018

Synopsis

First published in 1976, this beautiful, interactive collaboration is a unique work of book art in which Marisol's monumental pop-art sculptures face the blocks of Creeley's prose poems. The new introduction by Creeley scholar Stephen Fredman describes how the poet's autobiographical prose poetry arose in conversation with images of Marisol's equally autobiographical sculptures.

In addition to the introduction, this edition features an appendix of newly discovered material, much of it found in Creeley's own copy of the original edition of Presences. These include postcards and letters from Marisol, designer William Katz (who brought the poet and artist together), Mexican poet Octavio Paz, and several university professors. The material in the appendix allows the editor to reveal the genesis of Presences as a collaborative work of art involving three creators: artist, designer, and poet.

About this title

About the Author:

Stephen Fredman is a professor emeritus of English at the University of Notre Dame. His recent books include Contextual Practice: Assemblage and the Erotic in Postwar Poetry and Art and How Long Is the Present: Selected Talk Poems of David Antin (UNM Press).

About this edition

• Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
• Publication date: 2018
• ISBN 10: 0826358985
• ISBN 13: 9780826358981
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 200
• Editor: Fredman Stephen