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Edward Ragg

    Edward Ragg je básník a literární kritik, jehož dílo se často noří do složitých vztahů mezi jazykem, abstrakcí a vnímáním. Jeho poezie, která čerpá z bohatých tradic literární kritiky, zkoumá estetické možnosti jazyka a způsoby, jakými se realita konstruuje skrze umělecké vyjádření. Raggova práce se vyznačuje precizní dikcí a intelektuální hloubkou, často se zaměřuje na témata spojená s americkou poezií 20. století a estetikou abstrakce. Jeho kritické a poetické psaní nabízí jedinečný pohled na propojení umění, filozofie a smyslového vnímání světa.

    Vital Signs
    And Then the Rain Came
    Holding Unfailing
    Exploring Rights
    Wallace Stevens and the Aesthetics of Abstraction
    • Focusing on philosophical and artistic viewpoints, the book examines Stevens's role in Modernist discussions surrounding literature, painting, and representation. It delves into the interplay between these disciplines, offering insights into how Stevens's work reflects and contributes to broader Modernist themes.

      Wallace Stevens and the Aesthetics of Abstraction
    • Exploring Rights is exploratory and questioning of our roles and ethical choices, in a poetry that defiantly and playfully confronts `post-truth' culture and the prospects of humankind's survival.

      Exploring Rights
    • Edward Ragg's debut collection A Force That Takes (2013) was a Cinnamon Press Poetry Award winner. This entrancing second volume probes the complexity of contemporary China, from Beijing to Shanghai through the dizzying landscapes of a country undergoing profound change.

      Holding Unfailing
    • A contemplation on love, the many physical and mental geographies we cross, and the vitality of the present moment.

      And Then the Rain Came
    • Vital Signs draws on the inspiration of the medical vital signs in three parts-'Body', 'Pulse' and 'Breath'-each with nine poems that explore romantic love, death and the experiences of grief and loss in a poetry that is as embodied, pulsing with life and rhythmically breathing.

      Vital Signs