Goose Flesh

Loukes, Matthew

Soul Bay Press

'Only those who risk going too far can possibly find out how far they can go.' - T.S. Eliot in his preface to Harry Crosby's collection of poems Transit of Venus . Harry Crosby has been put forward as the embodiment of 'The Lost Generation' of American writers who travelled to Europe in the 1920s and appeared to question the American way of life. His poetry stemmed from his love of European poets such as Rimbaud, Baudelaire, Mallarmé and Lautreamont and has more to do with symbolism, surrealism and futurism than more traditional forms of poetry. A complicated and passionate poet he deserves to be read. It may only be the tragic circumstances of his death, a doomed love and a presumed double suicide, that may have stopped Crosby becoming a major literary figure. This second edition of Harry Crosby's poetry now includes more poems and also extracts from his diaries from 1922 to his untimely death in 1929.

Ladders to the Sun: Poems of Harry Crosby with Extracts from His Diaries

Literature & Fiction

Crosby, Harry

Poetry

<p>Gentes and laitymen, fullstoppers and semicolonials, hybreds and lubberds! These three stories dip into dark areas with a transgressive tongue. In them words and meaning are played with behind the rood screen as James Joyce looks on. History and literature dream their own story regardless. Elsewhere a Mookse declaims while insects argue and tell of their own tale. Scores are settled and somewhere in the middle is the muddest thick that was ever heard dump. As early versions of segments of Finnegans Wake these stories spark with expression full of passionate intensity and are profoundly humorous. To quote Samuel Beckett - 'Here form is content, content is form. You complain that this stuff is not written in English. It is not written at all. It is not to be read - or rather it is not only to be read. It is to be looked at and listened to. His writing is not about something; it is that something itself.'</p>

Tales Told of Shem and Shaun: Three Fragments from Work in Progress

James, Joyce

Literary

Society of the Spectacle

GUY DEBORD

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