Rhyming and Necromancy: Collected Poems (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9798896231011)

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Rhyming and Necromancy: Collected Poems

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Rhyming and Necromancy: Collected Poems

$18.00
Format: Paperback
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A new collection of work, some never seen before, by a forgotten queer poet of the mid-twentieth century. This collection draws from Harry Fainlight's memoirs, unpublished work, and other biographical pieces to create a provocative portrait of the artist.

Born in New York and raised in England before returning to the Lower East Side in the early 1960s, by the age of thirty Harry Fainlight had cruised with Ginsberg, boozed with Kerouac, and posed for Warhol, all the while managing to feud with everyone from Robert Graves to Ted Hughes. Amidst it all Fainlight wrote some of the most startling verse of his generation, fusing queer longing and Jewish mysticism with a sardonic and hesitant eye. Fainlight's pioneering explorations of queer urban life are as boldly alluring as they are intimate and vulnerable, and yet for decades his work has been largely inaccessible to readers.

Rhyming and Necromancy is a new collection that gathers all of Fainlight's published poems, including those from the only collection published in his lifetime Sussicran, as well as a number of previously unpublished poems. Together, they give a sense of the extraordinary scope of Fainlight's mind; his fraught explorations of self and society; and the insight of a singular poet destined to find revelation in the margins of life.

Author: Harry Fainlight
ISBN-13: 9798896231011
Publisher: New York Review of Books
Language: English
Published: 11/17/2026
Pages: 176
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.81lbs
By Harry Fainlight
By Harry Fainlight
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Harry Fainlight (1935-1982) was born into a Jewish family in New York and raised in England. After university, he worked as an ad executive in London. He visited New York in the 1960s, where he befriended several of the famous Beat poets of the time, including Allen Ginsberg, and published work in C: A Journal of Poetry, edited by New York School poet Ted Berrigan. After returning to London, Fainlight was part of the International Poetry Incarnation at the Royal Albert Hall where he suffered a severe breakdown. He became increasingly more isolated before retreating to rural Wales in the 1970s, where he later died of pneumonia.

M. Syd Rosen writes about fame, fantasy, and radical politics, with a particular interest in marginal and experimental publishing. He was recently awarded a PhD in the History of Science from the University of Cambridge, where his research explored the work of literary impresario John Brockman.

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