Ian Hamilton Finlay: Selections Volume 8 (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780520270589)

This volume surveys the life and work of the Scottish poet Ian Hamilton Finlay, who is best known for his extraordinary garden, Little Sparta, a unique "poem of place" in which poetry, sculpture, and horticulture intersect. This book directs sustained attention to Finlay the verbal artist, revealing the full breadth and richness of his poetics. It illuminates the evolution from his early years of composing plays, stories, and lyrical poems to his discovery of Concrete poetry and his emergence as a key figure in the international avant-garde of the 1960s.

Author: Ian Hamilton Finlay
ISBN-10: 0520270584
ISBN-13: 9780520270589
Publisher: University of California Press
Language: English
Published: 04/02/2012
Pages: 334
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.20lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.88d