A True Account
Published on 6. October 2023
Book
Paperback/Softback
150 pages
978-1-7393939-5-3 (ISBN)
Description
"Gorgeous and real poetry. This book is a bright spot in a bleak time." - Peter Gizzi
A True Account collects works written between 2013 and 2020, published by a variety of small presses in the UK and the US. Here are variously refracted the student movement, austerity, general election, referendum, the crisis of 2020 or 2019 or any year you care to name; the Massacre of the Innocents, the housing question, the October Revolution in November.
Grundy invokes Sappho, Mingus, Storm Ophelia; Rukeyser, Rilke, Rodefer; the aesthetics of resistance, the insistence of history: luxury and voluptuousness, peace and pleasure, beauty and order, the questions that still remain unanswered and the problems that remain unsolved.
"Wanting poetry to save my life, to shame my life, as LONG as the WORLD is WIDE, and as WIDE as the WORLD is LONG."
For Fans Of: Sean Bonney, Amiri Baraka, Fred Moten, Peter Gizzi
A True Account collects works written between 2013 and 2020, published by a variety of small presses in the UK and the US. Here are variously refracted the student movement, austerity, general election, referendum, the crisis of 2020 or 2019 or any year you care to name; the Massacre of the Innocents, the housing question, the October Revolution in November.
Grundy invokes Sappho, Mingus, Storm Ophelia; Rukeyser, Rilke, Rodefer; the aesthetics of resistance, the insistence of history: luxury and voluptuousness, peace and pleasure, beauty and order, the questions that still remain unanswered and the problems that remain unsolved.
"Wanting poetry to save my life, to shame my life, as LONG as the WORLD is WIDE, and as WIDE as the WORLD is LONG."
For Fans Of: Sean Bonney, Amiri Baraka, Fred Moten, Peter Gizzi
Reviews / Votes
A True Account is oceanic in its extent but buoys a reader in ever-new recurrences. -- John Wilkinson, author of Wood Circle (The Last Books) and Fugue State (Shearsman) * Blackbox Manifold * In the twilight of this (Tory) rule and the thick of a global polycrisis, his sustained project of crisis poetics makes essential reading. -- Tom Branfoot * The Poetry Review *More details
Language
English
Place of publication
United Kingdom
Product notice
Paperback (UK-B)
Dimensions
Height: 131 mm
Width: 198 mm
Thickness: 15 mm
Weight
254 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-7393939-5-3 (9781739393953)
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Schweitzer Classification
Person
David Grundy is a poet and scholar based in London. He is the author of Present Continuous (Pamenar Press), and A Black Arts Poetry Machine: Amiri Baraka and the Umbra Poets (Bloomsbury Academic) and co-editor, with Lauri Scheyer, of Selected Poems of Calvin C. Hernton (Wesleyan University Press). He co-runs the small press MATERIALS/MATERIALIEN.