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National Book Foundation > Author > 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. More about this author >
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 >
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.