The Holy Forest Collected Poems of Robin Blaser [Paperback]

Robin Blaser, one of the key North American poets of the postwar period, emerged from the Berkeley Renaissance of the 1940s and 1950s as a central figure in that burgeoning literary scene.The Holy Forest,now spanning five decades, is Blaser's highly acclaimed lifelong serial poem. This long-awaited revised and expanded edition includes numerous published volumes of verse, the ongoing Image-Nation and Truth Is Laughter series, and new work from 1994 to 2004. Blaser's passion for world making draws inspiration from the major poets and philosophers of our timefrom friends and peers such as Robert Duncan, Jack Spicer, Charles Olson, Charles Bernstein, and Steve McCaffery to virtual companions in thought such as Hannah Arendt, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Michel Foucault, and Jacques Derrida, among others. This comprehensive compilation of Blaser's prophetic meditations on the histories, theories, emotions, experiments, and countermemories of the late twentieth century will stand as the definitive collection of his unique and luminous poetic oeuvre.

Robin Blaseris Professor Emeritus at Simon Fraser University. Among his many books areThe Fire: Collected Essays of Robin Blaser(UC Press),Pell Mell,andSyntax.Miriam Nicholsis College Professor at University College of the Fraser Valley and editor ofEven on Sunday: Essays, Readings, and Archival Materials on the Poetry and Poetics of Robin Blaser.

In his exquisite articulations of the flowers of associational thinking, Robin Blaser has turned knowledge into nowledge, the 'wild logos' of the cosmic companionship of the real. Charles Bernstein, author ofRepublics of Reality: 1975-1995

Blaser is a fine poet and a superb representative of a tradition that is still undervalued. His work is very important. Charles Altieri

Blaser plays his poems like an instrument. The glorious phrases that come forth ring with the memory of lÓh