Strange Country

Fascinated by strangeness that’s made in the U.S.A.—its beliefs and organization, its affinity for violence and its elusive relationship with the past—Strange Country lyrically addresses itself to defining American landscapes/dreamscapes, and to their unaccountable beauty.

"In Strange Country Jon Thompson addresses the voices, amongst others, of ‘the traffic of fear’, and bids their speakers join the living. It is also an invitation to the reader to enter a specifically American poetry of the here-and-now. The accomplishment of Strange Country begins with the exact measure of its line and its discovered idiom in the face of what may well be termed the present contradictions of a strange country. What sustains that accomplishment is a poet’s attention to a ‘wide-open polyphony’ equal to the multiple realities of its subject." — Kelvin Corcoran

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Strange Country

Fascinated by strangeness that’s made in the U.S.A.—its beliefs and organization, its affinity for violence and its elusive relationship with the past—Strange Country lyrically addresses itself to defining American landscapes/dreamscapes, and to their unaccountable beauty.

"In Strange Country Jon Thompson addresses the voices, amongst others, of ‘the traffic of fear’, and bids their speakers join the living. It is also an invitation to the reader to enter a specifically American poetry of the here-and-now. The accomplishment of Strange Country begins with the exact measure of its line and its discovered idiom in the face of what may well be termed the present contradictions of a strange country. What sustains that accomplishment is a poet’s attention to a ‘wide-open polyphony’ equal to the multiple realities of its subject." — Kelvin Corcoran

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Strange Country

Strange Country

by Jon Thompson
Strange Country

Strange Country

by Jon Thompson

Overview

Fascinated by strangeness that’s made in the U.S.A.—its beliefs and organization, its affinity for violence and its elusive relationship with the past—Strange Country lyrically addresses itself to defining American landscapes/dreamscapes, and to their unaccountable beauty.

"In Strange Country Jon Thompson addresses the voices, amongst others, of ‘the traffic of fear’, and bids their speakers join the living. It is also an invitation to the reader to enter a specifically American poetry of the here-and-now. The accomplishment of Strange Country begins with the exact measure of its line and its discovered idiom in the face of what may well be termed the present contradictions of a strange country. What sustains that accomplishment is a poet’s attention to a ‘wide-open polyphony’ equal to the multiple realities of its subject." — Kelvin Corcoran

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781848614826
Publisher: Shearsman Books
Publication date: 09/23/2016
Pages: 80
Product dimensions: 5.40(w) x 8.30(h) x 0.30(d)

About the Author


Born in Columbus, Ohio, Jon Thompson was educated at University College, Dublin where he received a BA in English Language and Literature and an MA in English and American Literature (with a thesis on Robert Creeley). He completed his PhD at LSU, and has taught at North Carolina State University ever since where he is now a Professor in the English Department. His first collection of poems was The Book of the Floating World (Parlor Press, 2007). His next book, published by Shearsman in 2009, was a collection of lyrical essays, After Paradise: Essays on the Fate of American Writing. He also provided an Introduction for D.H. Lawrence's Studies in Classic American Literature, in the Shearsman Classics series, which appeared in 2011. Thompson also edits the international online journal, Free Verse: A Journal of Contemporary Poetry & Poetics and Free Verse Editions, which now has over 30 titles on its list.

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