Brian Blanchfield

Longlist, 2014 National Book Awards

Brian Blanchfield is the author of Not Even Then; the chapbook, The History of Ideas, 1973-2012; and the forthcoming collection of essays, Onesheets, a finalist for a 2013 Creative Capital Innovative Literature grant. His recent work has appeared in The Nation, Chicago Review, The Brooklyn Rail, A Public Space, Lana Turner, The Paris Review, Brick, Conjunctions, Guernica, The Awl, and The Poetry Project Newsletter, among other journals and magazines. A Several World received the 2014 James Laughlin Award from the Academy of American Poets.
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A Several World

A Several World, by Brian Blanchfield
ISBN 9781937658175 Nightboat Books

As in the title phrase—borrowed from a seventeenth-century poem by Robert Herrick in which “several” is used to individuate-- questions of singularity and the plural, of subjectivity and the collective, pervade this dream-quick poetry. More about this book >

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Brian Blanchfield

Brian Blanchfield is the author of Not Even Then; the chapbook, The History of Ideas, 1973-2012; and the forthcoming collection of essays, Onesheets, a finalist for a 2013 Creative Capital Innovative Literature grant. His recent work has appeared in The Nation, Chicago Review, The Brooklyn Rail, A Public Space, Lana Turner, The Paris Review, Brick, Conjunctions, Guernica, The Awl, and The Poetry Project Newsletter, among other journals and magazines. A Several World received the 2014 James Laughlin Award from the Academy of American Poets.

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