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Unbecoming, Neil Surkan's sophomore collection, clings to hope while the world deteriorates, transforms, and grows less hospitable from moment to moment. Interplaying tenderness with dogged perseverance, these poems tumble through vignettes of degraded landscapes, ebbing spiritual communities, faltering men, and precarious friendships.

Poetry. --- Canadian. --- Contemporary. --- activist poetry. --- bisexual. --- contemporary sonnet. --- ethics. --- fatherhood. --- long poem. --- lyric. --- poethics. --- poetry. --- queer. --- settler studies. --- sonnet.

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Robin Blaser, one of the key North American poets of the postwar period, emerged from the "Berkeley Renaissance" of the 1940's and 1950's as a central figure in that burgeoning literary scene. The Holy Forest, now spanning five decades, is Blaser's highly acclaimed lifelong serial poem. This long-awaited revised and expanded edition includes numerous published volumes of verse, the ongoing "Image-Nation" and "Truth Is Laughter" series, and new work from 1994 to 2004. Blaser's passion for world making draws inspiration from the major poets and philosophers of our time-from friends and peers such as Robert Duncan, Jack Spicer, Charles Olson, Charles Bernstein, and Steve McCaffery to virtual companions in thought such as Hannah Arendt, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Michel Foucault, and Jacques Derrida, among others. This comprehensive compilation of Blaser's prophetic meditations on the histories, theories, emotions, experiments, and counter memories of the late twentieth century will stand as the definitive collection of his unique and luminous poetic oeuvre.

American poetry --- POETRY / General. --- Black Mountain school (Group of poets) --- 20th century. --- 1940s. --- 1950s. --- american poet. --- american poetry. --- berkeley renaissance. --- charles bernstein. --- charles olson. --- collected works. --- creative writer. --- creative writing. --- epic poem. --- inspiring. --- jack spicer. --- life story. --- literary history. --- literary. --- long poem. --- mfa. --- ouevre. --- philosophy. --- poetic verse. --- poetics. --- poetry studies. --- poetry. --- postwar poet. --- postwar poetry. --- postwar. --- robert duncan. --- serial poem. --- serial publication. --- steve mccafferey. --- the holy forest. --- verse.