(BARNITZ) David Park Barnitz ~ The Book of Jade, A New Critical Edition
(BARNITZ) David Park Barnitz ~ The Book of Jade, A New Critical Edition
Weight ~ 0.5013 Kg
(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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