Stubborn Poetries by Peter Quartermain PAPERBACK 9780817357481

Stubborn Poetries\nby Peter Quartermain\nPaperback\nEnglish\n\nBrand new copy from BookCurl \u2013 the UK independent online bookseller.\n\n------------------------------\nBook details\n------------------------------\nAuthor: Peter Quartermain\nTitle: Stubborn Poetries\nFormat: Paperback\nLanguage: English\nTopic: Literary studies: poetry and poets\nPublisher: The University of Alabama Press\nPublication year: 2013\nISBN-13: 9780817357481\nISBN-10: 0817357483\nRRP: \u00A333.95\n\n------------------------------\nDescription\n------------------------------\nOffers a study of poets whose work, because of its difficulty, apparent obduracy, or simple resistance to conventional explication, remains more-or-less firmly outside the canon. The focus of the essays is on non-mainstream poets - often unknown, unstudied, and neglected writers whose work bucks preconceived notions of what constitutes the avant-garde.\n\nOffers a study of poets whose work, because of its difficulty, apparent obdura.