Because of Poetry I Have a Really Big House - Johnson, Kent
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The provocative position of Kent Johnson in American poetry over the past two decades-as both its foremost gadfly and its anti-institutional conscience-is unequalled. Admired and abhorred in like measures, he is the author, translator, or editor of more than thirty titles of poetry, criticism, nonfiction, and metafiction. This collection represents a follow-up to his widely reviewed 2008 classic from Shearsman, Homage to the Last Avant-Garde. He has recently retired, after many years of teaching English and Spanish. In 2004, he was named State Teacher of the Year by the Illinois Community…mehr

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The provocative position of Kent Johnson in American poetry over the past two decades-as both its foremost gadfly and its anti-institutional conscience-is unequalled. Admired and abhorred in like measures, he is the author, translator, or editor of more than thirty titles of poetry, criticism, nonfiction, and metafiction. This collection represents a follow-up to his widely reviewed 2008 classic from Shearsman, Homage to the Last Avant-Garde. He has recently retired, after many years of teaching English and Spanish. In 2004, he was named State Teacher of the Year by the Illinois Community College Board of Trustees. From 2016 to 2020, with Michael Boughn, he oversaw the highly controversial Dispatches from the Poetry Wars. "Offense given; offense taken. Betrayals remembered and the betrayers unforgiven. Kent Johnson's mordant poems burn away the scrimshaw, the lace-making, the dreck that passes for poetry today, exposing the hypocrisy of our official poetry culture where a cadre of pampered bourgeoisie imagine themselves enlightened revolutionaries, and the poetics of the avant-garde has congealed into a set of implicit rules more formulaic than the traditions it seeks to supplant. A book like this is rare and necessary in every age. Let the refiner's fire break forth, lest universal darkness bury all." -James Chapson (Poet Laureate of Milwaukee) "Kent Johnson is an avant-garde poet without an avant-garde…. [He is] an antidote to the sentimental courtesies and complacencies that prevent a conversation about what and where poetry might be from soon beginning." -Keith Tuma (Chicago Review) "[Kent] Johnson's poems are like unchained pit bulls tossed into a school yard - somebody is going to get bit. But you almost have to admire all that taut muscle & those unstoppable jaws." -Ron Silliman (Silliman's Blog, 2/15/2006) "A poetry embroiled with poetry. Poetry pitched into the flames of its fractious lineage, presented as a colloquy of voices-most of which never queue you; they're all so perfervid to have their say. A signature convention pinched from one poet or another is catalyst enough for Johnson's ventriloquy to toggle between papyrus and blogosphere, homage and invective. Farcical, sprawling, lyrical, smashed, shimmering, and without mercy." -C.D. Wright (on Homage to the Last Avant-Garde, Shearsman, 2008)
Autorenporträt
Kent Johnson is editor of Beneath a Single Moon: Buddhism in Contemporary American Poetry (Shambhala, 1991) and of Third Wave: the New Russian Poetry (University of Michigan Press, 1992). In 1980 and 1983, during the Sandinista revolution, he worked in the Nicaraguan countryside for many months, teaching basic literacy and adult education. From this experience he translated A Nation of Poets(West End Press, 1985), the most representative translation in English from the famous working class Talleres de Poesia of Nicaragua, carrying an interview he conducted with then-Minister of Culture Ernesto Cardenal. He has edited Doubled Flowering: From the Notebooks of Araki Yasusada (Roof Books, 1998), as well as Also, with My Throat, I Shall Swallow Ten Thousand Swords: Araki Yasusada's Letters in English (Combo Books, 2005). With Forrest Gander, he has translated Immanent Visitor: Selected Poems of Jaime Saenz (California UP, 2002), which was a PEN Award for Poetry in Translation selection. A second book of Saenz's work, The Night, was published by Princeton UP in 2008, and also received a Translation Award from PEN. He is author of The Miseries of Poetry: Traductions from the Greek (Skanky Possum, 2003; rept. CCCP, UK, 2005), Dear Lacan (CCCP, 2005), Epigramititis: 118 Living American Poets (BlazeVox Books, 2006), and I Once Met (Longhouse Books, 2007). Translations of his poetry have appeared in over a dozen countries, and three book collections of his work have been translated and published abroad, in Bosnia-Herzegovina, Chile, and Argentina. Homage to the Last Avant-Garde, a collection of new and selected poems, appeared from Shearsman Books in 2008.Johnson is recipient of a Pushcart Book of the Month Award, an Illinois Arts Council Poetry Award, and an NEA Literature Fellowship. He teaches at Highland Community College and was named the "State of Illinois Teacher of the Year" for 2004 by the Illinois Community College Trustees Association.