{"product_id":"strange-country-9781848614826","title":"Strange Country","description":"\u003cp\u003eFascinated by strangeness that's made in the U.S.A.--its beliefs and organization, its affinity for violence and its elusive relationship with the past--Strange Country lyrically addresses itself to defining American landscapes\/dreamscapes, and to their unaccountable beauty.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"In \u003cem\u003eStrange Country\u003c\/em\u003e Jon Thompson addresses the voices, amongst others, of 'the traffic of fear', and bids their speakers join the living. It is also an invitation to the reader to enter a specifically American poetry of the here-and-now. The accomplishment of \u003cem\u003eStrange Country \u003c\/em\u003ebegins with the exact measure of its line and its discovered idiom in the face of what may well be termed the present contradictions of a strange country. What sustains that accomplishment is a poet's attention to a 'wide-open polyphony' equal to the multiple realities of its subject.\" -- Kelvin Corcoran\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThompson, Jon:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - Born in Columbus, Ohio, Jon Thompson was educated at University College, Dublin where he received a BA in English Language and Literature and an MA in English and American Literature (with a thesis on Robert Creeley). He completed his PhD at LSU, and has taught at North Carolina State University ever since where he is now a Professor in the English Department. His first collection of poems was \u003cem\u003eThe Book of the Floating World\u003c\/em\u003e (Parlor Press, 2007). His next book, published by Shearsman in 2009, was a collection of lyrical essays, \u003cem\u003eAfter Paradise: Essays on the Fate of American Writing\u003c\/em\u003e. He also provided an Introduction for D.H. Lawrence's \u003cem\u003eStudies in Classic American Literature\u003c\/em\u003e, in the Shearsman Classics series, which appeared in 2011. Thompson also edits the international online journal, \u003cem\u003eFree Verse: A Journal of Contemporary Poetry \u0026amp; Poetics\u003c\/em\u003e and Free Verse Editions, which now has over 30 titles on its list.","brand":"Shearsman Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50363399110930,"sku":"9781848614826","price":13.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_e5463a54-a8d5-4898-a705-71f61980ab7c.jpg?v=1728413361","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/strange-country-9781848614826","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}