{"product_id":"jessie-dismorr-promenades-jessie-dismorr-9781991310149","title":"Jessie Dismorr - Promenades \u0026 Other Verse","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eJessie Dismorr - Promenades \u0026amp; Other Verse\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eForgotten Poets #21 \/ forgottenpoets.substack.com\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'Promenades \u0026amp; Other Verse' [94 pages] brings together, for the first time, a generous selection of English poet Jessie Dismorr's uncollected poems and restored illustrations and drawings from the 1910s. Dismorr was one of the earliest abstract artists in England, exhibited alongside the Fauvists, later joined Wyndham Lewis' Vorticist movement, and was published in the underground journals \u003cem\u003eBlast\u003c\/em\u003e (1915), and \u003cem\u003eThe Little Review\u003c\/em\u003e (edited by Margaret Anderson, 1919). Dismorr's poetry is uncompromisingly avant-garde, as fresh today as it was 100 years ago. John Rodker wrote of her work; \"\"As far as I am concerned, Miss Dismorr is one of the most important contributors to \u003cem\u003eThe Little Review\u003c\/em\u003e today and four lines of her work outweigh the effusions of most others of your staff.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e. . . . . . . . .\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e-: The Enemy: -\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe microbe that inhabits my body makes\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eme sick; but it is he that pushes me to impossible\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eand exasperated feats of skill. He drinks my strength, \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ethen pushes me to unwilling exploration.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e. . . . . . . . .\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e-: Landscapes: -\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe immense gray sky, wheeling towards me\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eand on to me, against it I have-what resource?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the swarthy limbs of the trees that march over me\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eas I lie pallid, holding to the earth, what danger!\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNevertheless a creature thus drugged and bound\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eby immortality, am I not already destroyed\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eby the rigorous onrush of time?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e. . . . . . . . .\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e-: S-D-: -\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHaving pricked the polished surfaces of\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003elife and defaced them and having dammed\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ein thin close limits of expediency the perilous tides\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eof affection she now for sole occupation\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003echerishes a little pure flame, \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ethin as a mist without heat.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e. . . . . . . . .\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Forgotten Poets Newsletter presents: new collections of out-of-print and obscure poetry, with a focus on compressed \u0026amp; fragmented 'free' and 'new' verse from the late-1800s \u0026amp; early-1900s, \u0026amp; the early history of English-language tanka \u0026amp; haiku. Verses are carefully selected \u0026amp; spaciously laid-out, adorned with illustrations \u0026amp; ornaments from the books \u0026amp; magazines they originally appeared in.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Jessie Dismorr\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1991310145\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781991310149\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Forgotten Poets\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/16\/2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 96\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.25lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.23d","brand":"Jessie Dismorr","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48742737772799,"sku":"9781991310149","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/jessie-dismorr-promenades-jessie-dismorr-9781991310149","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}