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(BARNITZ) David Park Barnitz ~ The Book of Jade, A New Critical Edition

Author ~ David Park Barnitz

Title ~ The Book of Jade, A New Critical Edition

ISBN ~ 9781614981268

Publisher ~ Hippocampus Press

Published ~ 2015-05-01

Language ~ English

Pages ~ 328

Format ~ Paperback 

Condition ~ Used, Very Good 

Very little wear. Contains some high lighting please see pictures 

Categories ~ #Poetry, #LiteraryStudies, #Poets, #NonFiction, #DavidParkBarnitz, #9781614981268

H. P. Lovecraft referred to Park Barnitz as “a vivid decadent of the fin de siècle period who modelled his verse on Baudelaire & killed himself soon after graduation from Harvard.” His one and only volume, The Book of Jade (1901), has become a legend in the realm of weird poetry, its technical precision and its relentless obsession with death, horror, madness, and pessimism making it a choice prize for appreciators of poetic witchery.

But almost nothing is known about its young author, who died at the age of twenty-three. This comprehensive edition presents a wealth of material about David Park Barnitz—biographical, critical, and bibliographical. It contains the complete text of The Book of Jade along with additional poems and essays by Barnitz, some of which have never been reprinted. In addition, Gavin Callaghan has written an exhaustive biography that presents a fascinating portrait of the poet, delving into his family’s ancestry and collecting widely scattered nuggets of information on Barnitz’s life, work, and thought.

The editors have gathered a wide array of criticism on Barnitz, including contemporary reviews and early essays by Floyd Dell, Carey McWilliams, and Joseph Payne Brennan. The book concludes with a brace of original essays on Barnitz’s poetic achievement. This is the definitive edition of The Book of Jade, featuring masses of material not available elsewhere.

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