James Purdy: Life of a Contrarian Writer (consignment)

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James Purdy: Life of a Contrarian Writer (consignment)One of the most iconoclastic twentieth century American novelists, James Purdy penned original and sometimes shocking works about those on the margins of American society, exploring small towns, urban life, alienation, sexuality, and familial relations. Purdy was a compelling if eccentric figure, declared an authentic American genius by Gore Vidal. James Purdy: Life of a Contrarian Writer is the first biography of the gay American novelist, story

a girl trying to read her mother

in June of 1978

2019 Alice James Award Winner

intertextualverse} String Theory” invokes Hebrew gematria and the 11 dimensions hypothesized by string theory with equal ease

and artistic frontiers

both kept and broken

It’s poetry that makes everything happen

the roof of a barn

throughout

shadow-filled world where new poems sound ancient

It fills me with words

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