Mark Ford: Selected Poems by Mark Ford (English) Paperback Book

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An exuberant, versatile, and complex debut US collection from one of the United Kingdom's most respected poets.

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Ford is editing the UK edition of the Best American Poetry series and we can expect attention and support from them hereFord is a very active critic and both well-known and well-respected in both the UK and the US with regular reviews in the TLS and London Review of BooksFord's work has appeared in the US in The New York Review of Books, The Nation, The Paris Review, Bookforum, and The New Republic.Ford is well known here for having edited O'Hara's selected poemsFord's work has been reviewed enthusiastically in the New York Times in the pastFord's is constantly reinventing himself as a poet, giving the collection a versatility and variety that's excitingFord says he writes to delight the reader (Vendler has said she reads him "with instant joy") and it's that kind of energy that drives his work and makes it so appealingFord first came to poetry via the American greats—Whitman, Dickinson, Stevens, Williams, Eliot, Pound, Bishop, Ginsberg—and those influences are alive in his work todayThe book includes a section of new poems as well, for those US readers familiar with his work

Author Biography

Mark Ford was born in Nairobi, Kenya, in 1962. He has published three collections of poetry and a biography of the French writer Raymond Roussel. He has also translated Roussel's New Impressions of Africa, and is the editor of London: A History in Verse. He lives in London.

Table of Contents

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Review

Times Literary Supplement Book of the Year"[Mark Ford's] work opens up emotionally, like a rolling vista that unfurls after a long hike through dense woods. . . He has a stethoscopic ear for the sounds disappointment can squeeze from a human heart." —New York Times"Mark Ford, perhaps [Nicholas] Moore's most brilliant disciple, has recently published his own Selected Poems . . among my favorite poetry publications this year."—New York Times Literary Supplement"If there is an unspoken limit on how many exclamation marks a poet should use during their career, British poet Ford has surpassed it with bursting, exuberant abandon. . . these selected poems are an exercise in play that energetically flaps against time. . . This collection should make Ford's name a familiar one to more American readers." —Publishers Weekly"Intelligent, restless originality." —The Guardian"This is not a poetry of incident and handily derived précis but rather of choreographed tension and inspired utterance." —Albert Mobilio, New York Times"Ford's poems, elaborated from a witty and sinister imagination, 'work' in that instinctual way, allowing details to rise into salient being and beautiful formal shape for the reader as for the poet." —The New York Review of Books"Ford helps American readers take pleasure in seeing with fresh eyes a country they know too well to notice. . . poetry this strange, felt, terrifying, physical, cerebral, and real is indeed a conjuring act." —Boston Review"...his poems are nothing short of carefully contained energy." —Cleaver Magazine"Ford is at once a veteran of pop culture and a connoisseur of the desperation of high culture, an indoor reader of the past but also an outdoor breather of physically felt atmospheres. His generation of English poets is still in formation but I believe Ford to be one of its eventual definers, as Ashbery was crucial to postwar writing in the United States." —Helen Vendler"Ford's poetry is light and agile and sometimes sweet, but it also has a disconcerting way of turning sharp and naughty and even sinister." —John Ashbery"Readers who like some puzzles along with their pleasures, and who admire sophisticated thinking in verse, will find Ford one of the best young poets we have—one attuned in sad, clever, intricate ways to how we speak now, and what we suspect of ourselves." —Stephen Burt, Times Literary Supplement"[Ford's] dark episodes—slightly surreal, unnerving, and often farcical—unroll before us, as on a screen of rapidly changing images, while an enchanting voice-over, in a diction all its own, tells its painful, accurate and self-mocking tale." —London Review of Books"Through the years British poet Mark Ford has developed a singular and spirited body of work that has a winning combination of erudition and whimsy. He is a 21st French century fantast with deep roots in romanticism and modernity. How fortunate now to have this generous selection of his life poetry." —Peter Gizzi"This generous Selected Poems is the ideal introduction to the work of Mark Ford, a British poet who is, thankfully, no respecter of literary or geographical boundaries."—Friday Night Boys"At long last, American readers can possess a substantial selection of Mark Ford's poetry. These are poems of serious play, relentlessly experimental but grounded in quotidian specifics, characterized by a consummate strangeness and an oddball ferocity that never stoops to mere whimsy or the easy tour-de-force. Mark Ford is, quite simply, one of the most singular talents at work today—on either side of the Atlantic." —David WojahnTimes Literary Supplement Book of the Year"[Mark Ford's] work opens up emotionally, like a rolling vista that unfurls after a long hike through dense woods. . . He has a stethoscopic ear for the sounds disappointment can squeeze from a human heart." —New York Times"Mark Ford, perhaps [Nicholas] Moore's most brilliant disciple, has recently published his own Selected Poems . . among my favorite poetry publications this year."—New York Times Literary Supplement"If there is an unspoken limit on how many exclamation marks a poet should use during their career, British poet Ford has surpassed it with bursting, exuberant abandon. . . these selected poems are an exercise in play that energetically flaps against time. . . This collection should make Ford's name a familiar one to more American readers." —Publishers Weekly"Intelligent, restless originality." —The Guardian"This is not a poetry of incident and handily derived précis but rather of choreographed tension and inspired utterance." —Albert Mobilio, New York Times"Ford's poems, elaborated from a witty and sinister imagination, 'work' in that instinctual way, allowing details to rise into salient being and beautiful formal shape for the reader as for the poet." —The New York Review of Books"Ford helps American readers take pleasure in seeing with fresh eyes a country they know too well to notice. . . poetry this strange, felt, terrifying, physical, cerebral, and real is indeed a conjuring act." —Boston Review"...his poems are nothing short of carefully contained energy." —Cleaver Magazine"Ford is at once a veteran of pop culture and a connoisseur of the desperation of high culture, an indoor reader of the past but also an outdoor breather of physically felt atmospheres. His generation of English poets is still in formation but I believe Ford to be one of its eventual definers, as Ashbery was crucial to postwar writing in the United States." —Helen Vendler"Ford's poetry is light and agile and sometimes sweet, but it also has a disconcerting way of turning sharp and naughty and even sinister." —John Ashbery"Readers who like some puzzles along with their pleasures, and who admire sophisticated thinking in verse, will find Ford one of the best young poets we have—one attuned in sad, clever, intricate ways to how we speak now, and what we suspect of ourselves." —Stephen Burt, Times Literary Supplement"[Ford's] dark episodes—slightly surreal, unnerving, and often farcical—unroll before us, as on a screen of rapidly changing images, while an enchanting voice-over, in a diction all its own, tells its painful, accurate and self-mocking tale." —London Review of Books"Through the years British poet Mark Ford has developed a singular and spirited body of work that has a winning combination of erudition and whimsy. He is a 21st French century fantast with deep roots in romanticism and modernity. How fortunate now to have this generous selection of his life poetry." —Peter Gizzi"This generous Selected Poems is the ideal introduction to the work of Mark Ford, a British poet who is, thankfully, no respecter of literary or geographical boundaries."—Friday Night Boys"At long last, American readers can possess a substantial selection of Mark Ford's poetry. These are poems of serious play, relentlessly experimental but grounded in quotidian specifics, characterized by a consummate strangeness and an oddball ferocity that never stoops to mere whimsy or the easy tour-de-force. Mark Ford is, quite simply, one of the most singular talents at work today—on either side of the Atlantic." —David Wojahn

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Early access copies in DecemberNational print, radio, and online campaignTargeted bookseller mailingPossible Boston Review samplerAdvertising: BookforumPromotion at: AWP, BookExpo America, Winter Institute, ALA Annual, Twin Cities Book FestivalNational Poetry Month sponsorshipNational Poetry Month appearance at 92nd St. Y with John Ashbery and Helen VendlerPromotion on Coffee House Press e-newsletter, website, and social media channelsGiveaways on Twitter, Goodreads, and LibraryThingSimultaneous print and e-book release, with e-book ISBN to be included on all press materials, author and publisher websites, and whenever print ISBN is listedTargeted publicity to promote author's US tour

Review Quote

Times Literary Supplement Book of the Year [Mark Ford's] work opens up emotionally, like a rolling vista that unfurls after a long hike through dense woods. . . He has a stethoscopic ear for the sounds disappointment can squeeze from a human heart."

Description for Sales People

Ford is editing the UK edition of the Best American Poetry series and we can expect attention and support from them here Ford is a very active critic and both well-known and well-respected in both the UK and the US with regular reviews in the TLS and London Review of Books Ford's work has appeared in the US in The New York Review of Books, The Nation, The Paris Review, Bookforum, and The New Republic. Ford is well known here for having edited O'Hara's selected poems Ford's work has been reviewed enthusiastically in the New York Times in the past Ford's is constantly reinventing himself as a poet, giving the collection a versatility and variety that's exciting Ford says he writes to delight the reader (Vendler has said she reads him "with instant joy") and it's that kind of energy that drives his work and makes it so appealing Ford first came to poetry via the American greats--Whitman, Dickinson, Stevens, Williams, Eliot, Pound, Bishop, Ginsberg--and those influences are alive in his work today The book includes a section of new poems as well, for those US readers familiar with his work

Details ISBN1566893496 Author Mark Ford Short Title MARK FORD SEL POEMS Publisher Coffee House Press Language English ISBN-10 1566893496 ISBN-13 9781566893497 Media Book Format Paperback DEWEY 821.92 Year 2014 Imprint Coffee House Press Place of Publication MN Country of Publication United States AU Release Date 2014-04-17 NZ Release Date 2014-04-17 US Release Date 2014-04-17 UK Release Date 2014-04-17 Pages 168 Publication Date 2014-04-17 Audience General We've got this

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