Staff Pick
Thanks to this long overdue reissue from Nightboat Books (perhaps my current favorite publisher), I read more books by Douglas Crase than any other author in 2019. Enthusiasts of John Ashbery and Lorine Niedecker, take note: this book is not to be missed! Recommended By Adam P., Powells.com
Synopses & Reviews
Synopsis
MacArthur "genius" Douglas Crase is best known for his invocations and revisions of Whitmanian transcendentalism. Out of print since 1987, his book The Revisionist has still been enough in some opinions to establish him as one of the most important poets of his generation; on its strength, says the Oxford Book of American Poetry, "rests a formidable underground reputation." Now, by combining The Revisionist with Crase's chapbook The Astropastorals in a new collection, Nightboat Books presents his formidable reputation to a wider public for the first time in thirty-two years.