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"This is Grand Central, Mr. Robinson..."
It would have been sad indeed if the work of Weldon Kees had disappeared into obscurity, as it was dangerously close to doing.Nothing escapes this poets' dark, razor edge sensibility;
the whole thing reads as a kind of pessimistic culture shock.Taking his cues from Joyce and Eliot's "Waste Land", he is pitiless in his assessment of the human condition and civilization.

He is not, however, tiringly depressing like Philip Larkin. He has a voice all his own and it is compelling and vivid.It is pretty obvious that his "Robinson" poems are autobiographical, at least in terms of Robinson's perceptions of the world around him."For My Daughter" is a poem you will not soon forget.

For my part, I do not believe Weldon Kees is still alive.After reading and re-reading this collection I can't help but see that as wishful thinking.You can't fake this kind of sincerity.I would liken him to Leopardi, Beckett, and other masters of poetic darkness, but he has a voice so individual that he needs no predecessors.An absolute must read.

The best American poet you never heard of--
Kees is a master of image, and has a profound sense of time and place--his language has the direct and unselfconscious quality of a newspaper headline, and his meters are natural and terse. There is a lumious, jarring quality to his work that makes you feel like you'd found something important that's been lost for a long time. You have.This is the first collection of his work that has ever been generally available.

Dark and Brilliant Collection
Kees is a brilliant modernist poet, who describes the world he sees in dark and apocalyptic tones, filled with biting satirical wit.He poems read like photographic images of the dark reality in which he lives. His style is inventive and original.The world around him is hollow and meaningless, as seen through the eyes of bathers, lovers, scholars, soldiers, politicians, businessmen, actors, and Robinson -- the caricature of the average man of the cold-war era.His vision is the opposite Whitman with a vision that's closer to Kafka and Samuel Beckett, expressing the pointlessness of war and mechanistic civilization.As he writes: "If this room is our world, then let / This world be damned.Open this roof / For one last monstrous flood / To sweep away this floor, these chairs, / This bed that takes me to no sleep. / Under the black sky of our circumstance, / Mumbling of wet barometers, I stare / At citied dust that soils the glass / While thunder perishes. The heroes perish / Miles from here.Their blood runs heavy in the grass, / Sweet, restless, clotted, sickening, / Runs to the rivers and the seas, the seas / That are the source of that devouring flood / That I await, that I must perish by."Kees is one of the best American poets and deserves a wider audience.

--Alexander Shaumyan, poet, author of "Spirit of Rebellion"

a dark poet
Weldon Kees has been recommended to me by more than one person. And the reason is that he is a very dark poet, and a very interesting one at that. Kees is slightly outside of academia, though his reputation is getting bigger. I found his earlier work to be better than his later work, that's not to say that there isn't good stuff in his later work, just that I preferred his early work. I'd also recommend you did up a good biography of Kees, since he also has an interesting life.

Kees Combines Harrowing Vision with Darkly Comic Sensibility
If the passive despair of Prufrock (or should we say Eliot in a Prufrock mood) could be entwined with the searing wit and rage of S. Plath, the result might resemble Weldon Kees' unforgettable best poems -- twenty ofthem perhaps, all included in this book.And the comparison with Plath isfair I think, not because both lives ended in suicide but because both werespectacularly inventive imagists and masters of the craft whose poems peerinto the abyss.Although this collection contains some of the mostharrowing English language poems of our times -- the final poem in the"Robinson" series, certainly -- flashes of black comedy ensurethat this book is as pleasing as it is troubling.I for one, find thefollowing lines from "The Crime Club" devilishly pleasing:"Consider the clues: the potato masher in a vase,/The torn photographof a Wesleyan basketball team,/...The unsent fan letter to ShirleyTemple,/The Hoover button on the lapel of the deceased,/The note, 'To bekilled this way is quite all right with me.'" ... Read more

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Turn to "Poetry for Students" to get your research done in record time. Brought to you by Thomson Gale--the world's leading source of literary criticism and analysis--this e-doc contains: author biography; poem summary; poem text (if available); discussion of the work's themes, style, and historical context; a compendium of in-depth critical material; study questions; suggestions for further reading; and much more.

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Landscape is now on the agenda in a new way. The increasing interest in justice, power and the political landscape expresses a sea change occurring in the meaning of landscape itself, from landscape as scenery to landscape as polity and place. As Lionella Scazzosi argues "The meaning of the term ‘landscape’ has become broader than that of a view or panorama, which characterized many national protection laws and policies until the middle of the 20^th century, and that of environment or nature, to which it has often been limited during the recent years of environmentalist battles." This is reflected in the new European Landscape Convention, for which: "’Landscape’ means an area, as perceived by people." The tide thus has turned towards J. B. Jackson’s view of landscape as not "a scenic or ecological entity but as a political or cultural entity, changing in the course of history." It is in this socio-political context that it becomes necessary to consider the role of power, and the importance of justice, in the shaping of the landscape as an area of practice and performance with both cultural and environmental implications.

This book was previously published as two special issues of Landscape Research.

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Title: Repairing the past: polarities of restorative justice.
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From the supplier: Fredric Lederer, the director of the Courtroom 21 Project, a demonstration center for state-of-the art courtroom technology and a research center that examines the impact of technology on the courts, and Chancellor Professor of Law at William and Mary Law School, feels that video and computer technology will interest the courts during the next decade. Lederer feels the need to conserve resources drives court interest in technology. Topics covered in the interview include whether the trend towards technology will help or hurt small-firm lawyers.

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This digital document is an article from Encyclopedia of Crime and Justice, brought to you by Gale®, a part of Cengage Learning, a world leader in e-research and educational publishing for libraries, schools and businesses.The length of the article is 6808 words.The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase.You can view it with any web browser.Explores the full spectrum of communication, from careers to information technologies, in an interdisciplinary fashion. Emphasis is on both historical and current issues, topics, and people. ... Read more

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New Poetry 1962.
When Donald Hall put this together in 1962 it was filled with works by poets born mostly in the 1920's.It's a collection of short works to get you acquainted with poets, many now so famous, and old, that you hardly need this book any more other than for historical reference.Poems by William Stafford, Robert Lowell, Robert Duncan, Reed Whittemore, Howard Nemerov, Richard Wilbur, Anthony Hecht, James Dickey, Denise Levertov, John Logan, Louis Simpson, Edgar Bowers, Donald Justice, Robert Bly, Robert Creeley, James Merrill, W.D. Snodgrass, John Ashbery, Galway Kinnell, W.S. Merwin, James Wright, S.J. Kennedy, Adrienne Rich, Gary Snyder, Robert Mezey.The blurb on John Ashbery tells us that he won the Yale Series of Younger Poets in 1956 and wrote The Tennis Court Oath in 1962.Were we every that young?

A nice encapsulation of mid-20th century American poets
This little book contains some 39 American poets, some better known than others.If you're into poetry, and looking for an interesting and brief collection of what was being written in America during the middle-half of the 20th century (and thus, highly influential upon our own) than this Penguin anthology is a great book to own.In his introduction, written in 1961, Donald Hall distinguishes "new" American poetry as being "subjective" rather than "autobiographical"."It reveals through images not particular pain, but general subjective life."The poems of this era (roughly the 1950's & early 1960's) are best described as "expressionistic" - they have their own language and feeling best understood and felt if the reader is open to them. Like a painter "...the poet uses fantasy and distortion to express feeling."

I like this anthology because it contains a number of American poets I was unfamiliar with and wanted to know.Each poet is represented fairly well, mostly with four or more poems.Stafford, Lowell, Wilbur, Bly, Creeley, Ginsberg, Ashbery, Sexton, Wright, Rich, Snyder, and Plath are some of the more well-known names in American poetry you'll find here. But the rest are just as interesting for being less known and "new". Reading these poets all together, one gains a basic idea of what kinds of movements, directions, and experiments were happening in poetry at this time, leading into and influencing ours. A number of lines strike me in a meaningful or thought-provoking way, and I enjoy the way many of these poets make one see and feel in a new and different light. Well worth the time and effort of any knowledgable poet or poetry lover.
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Green softcover enclosing this collection of twelve poems by Donald Justice. This is a high quality publication production. 7 1/4 x 11 1/4 inches (approx.). Pages are numbered in red Roman numerals. Page Xll is a fold-out page. 270 copies printed on special paper. This copy is signed by Donald Justice on the first flyleaf. (The pages are uncut; thus this copy has not been read.) This is a very scarce collector's item, and even rare in this condition. ... Read more