{"product_id":"the-book-of-jade-a-new-critical-edition-9781614981268","title":"The Book of Jade: A New Critical Edition","description":"H. P. Lovecraft referred to Park Barnitz as \"a vivid decadent of the fin de si cle period who modelled his verse on Baudelaire \u0026amp; killed himself soon after graduation from Harvard.\" His one and only volume, \u003ci\u003eThe Book of Jade\u003c\/i\u003e (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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBut 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 \u003ci\u003eThe Book of Jade\u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe 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 \u003ci\u003eThe Book of Jade\u003c\/i\u003e, featuring masses of material not available elsewhere. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Book of Jade, by Park Barnitz\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eUncollected Writings, by Park Barnitz\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAfter-Life\u003cbr\u003eDanse Macabre\u003cbr\u003e Letter to William Doxey, 1901]\u003cbr\u003eThe Truth about Rudyard Kipling\u003cbr\u003eThe Art of the Future\u003cbr\u003e Review]\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBibliography\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePark Barnitz: A Biography, by Gavin Callaghan\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCriticism\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eContemporary Reviews\u003cbr\u003eThe Promise of Contemporary Art\u003cbr\u003eTwo American Poets: A Study in Possibilities, by Floyd Dell\u003cbr\u003eWe (Almost) Die for Art, by Floyd Dell\u003cbr\u003eThe Poet of Montsalvat, by Carey McWilliams\u003cbr\u003eA Land of Poets, by Carey McWilliams\u003cbr\u003eAmerica's \"Yellow Nineties\" Poet, by Joseph Payne Brennan\u003cbr\u003eRenaissance, by David E. Schultz\u003cbr\u003eThe Perfection of the Corpse: Necrophilia in The Book of Jade, by K. A. Opperman\u003cbr\u003eThe Grotesques: Sins against the Afterlife, by Ashley Dioses\u003cbr\u003eBarnitz and Pessimism, by Matt Sarraf\u003cbr\u003e\"I Am Weary of That Lidless Eye\" Gazing into the Hegelian Abyss of Subjectivity in theMad Sonnets of Park Barnitz, by Chuck Caruso, Ph.D.\u003cbr\u003eTwo Dead Men: Park Barnitz and Rudyard Kipling, by Gavin Callaghan\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAfterword, by Michael J. Abolafia\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eIndex of Titles and First Lines\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Hippocampus Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50525009412370,"sku":"9781614981268","price":18.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_1156ccf1-3a1a-4105-ad0c-8b5363b8c7c5.jpg?v=1731198902","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-book-of-jade-a-new-critical-edition-9781614981268","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}