On Autumn Lake
Collected Essays
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Nightboat Books
Published:7th Jul '22
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On Autumn Lake collects four decades of prose (1976-2020) by renowned poet and beloved cult figure Douglas Crase, with an emphasis on idiosyncratic essays about quintessentially American poets and the enduring transcendentalist tradition.
Douglas Crase’s prose is rich with conviction and desire, inspiring as John Yau wrote, “the kind of attention usually reserved for poetry.” His essays, written as rhythmically as poems, take a personal rather than abstract approach, offering committed and sometimes intimate portraits of John Ashbery, James Schuyler, Lorine Niedecker, and others. With generosity of spirit, Crase shares his devotion to poetry, democracy, and landscape in this handsome volume that greatly enlarges the available body of his work and will be seen as the essential complement to his collected poems.
“Gracefully wrought essays imbued with a rare intimacy.” — Kirkus (Starred Review)
“The future awaits us and Crase has set the bar high for all of us. May we live up to his example.” — g emil reutter, North of Oxford
"This is easily the finest collection of prose I’ve read in years." — rob mclennan
"Four decades of critical writing from poet Crase (The Revisionist) come together in this intensive collection... Crase is skeptical about calling the pieces criticism; rather, 'they are appreciations or predilections, though to be truthful they were more like affairs of the heart, affairs of attention and intellectual desire, rather than criticism.'" — Publishers Weekly
ISBN: 9781643621432
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344 pages