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{ Wednesday, August 20, 2003 }

Poet's Novelists

"Jack Kerouac, Kathy Acker, Douglas Woolf, Bill Burroughs & Samuel R. Delany have all been characterized, with reason, poets' novelists. This is to say that their works are written in the context & milieu of poetry, employ more than a few of poetry’s devices & are read attentively by poets." writes Ron Silliman.

I meant to write here about poets who have written novels. These are my favorite kinds of novels. But this has been sitting in my drafts file for so long now, waiting for the commentary that never gets written, so I figured I might as well post it.

LINK | 12:57 PM | TB

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Have you read Bye-Bye a wonderful wee novel written by poet Jane Ransom? I highly recommend.

kiri | August 20, 2003 3:45 PM

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And then read Michael Ondaatje's Running in the Family, which is kind of a novel and kind of a personal narrative, but mostly it's just achingly beautiful poetry in prose.

Darren | August 20, 2003 6:18 PM

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It occurs to me that James Blish and Poul Anderson probably also belong on that list.

Randolph Fritz | August 20, 2003 11:13 PM

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Once more I recommend, see can you stop me, Randall Jarrell's Pictures From an Institution.

bhikku | August 21, 2003 1:06 AM

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James Schulyer, Thomas Wolfe, Raymond Federman, Maurice Roche, Kenneth Patchen, Tarjei Vesaas...

Torvil Hunglsungsness | August 21, 2003 5:47 AM

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Ondaatje's Coming Through Slaughter.
And I would even say large sections of Delillo, mainly Libra comes to mind, but also The Names.

meng | August 21, 2003 10:36 AM

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What about Djuna Barnes and Henry Green?

Heath | August 21, 2003 1:31 PM

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Pretty much anything by John Crowley reads as poetry, most especially "Little, Big;" I often describe this one as a 600-page poem. His latest novel, "The Translator," is actually about a poet.

Lamar | August 21, 2003 1:49 PM

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Bhikku said it first. Randall Jarrell's 'Pictures From an Institution' is numinous, epiphanic, darling.

Michael Griffin | August 21, 2003 10:40 PM

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EE Cummings. The Enormous Room. Semi-autobiographical novel, based on his time in a French prison camp following a brief stint on the Western Front.

Fascinating in portraying the final ebbing of Cummings the Cambridge bourgeois, and the phoenix birth of a famous iconoclast.

carlos | August 22, 2003 12:32 AM

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Tobias Hill's The Criptographer, and The Love of Stones.

| August 22, 2003 7:57 AM

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Susan | August 23, 2003 5:10 AM

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Dylan Thomas, for one, but alas, though he has a number of short stories, his (as far as I know) sole novel remained unfinished, called Adventures in the Skin Trade. The short stories are magnificent, and the novel begins well, and then, and then ...

The Bloggard | August 24, 2003 7:22 PM

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Two I love:

Taken by Daphne Marlatt and Beduoin Hornbook (and it's sequels) by Nathanial Mackey

Chris | August 25, 2003 6:21 AM

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thank you! to whoever mentioned my books. you made one writer's afternoon, at least.

as for other poet-novelists, there are almost too many here in the UK - almost a movement, as if poetry is not fulfilling some need or at least desire. simon armitage, john burnside, lavinia greenlaw, and maura dooley is writing another...

tobias hill | November 3, 2003 11:49 AM

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