{"product_id":"an-easily-bewildered-child-occasional-prose-1963-2013-9781848613003","title":"An Easily Bewildered Child: Occasional Prose 1963-2013","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhen in his seventieth year Roy Fisher published Interviews Through Time (2000), he added and Selected Prose, which meant in effect three pieces: 'Antebiography', 'Roy Fisher on Roy Fisher' and 'Talks for Words'. The enlarged second edition of Interviews Through Time (2013), a volume of interviews only, made it possible for those three pieces to join many others in this first substantial gathering of Roy Fisher's occasional prose writings. An Easily Bewildered Child: Occasional Prose 1963-2013 brings together all his rare autobiographical sketches, the memoirs of his life as a jazz pianist, his tributes to musicians, writers, and painters of various kinds, a number of his book reviews, and comments on classic forebears such as John Cowper Powys, Ezra Pound, the Black Mountain poets, and Basil Bunting. All of these writings, as Fisher notes, 'owe their origins to commissions, suggestions or various forms of pressure from friends'. Together they provide a unique guide to the complex sources and influences on such distinctive works such as City, The Ship's Orchestra, and A Furnace as well as Fisher's oeuvre of individual poems. As Peter Robinson notes in his editor's Introduction, these writings in their various ways provide 'essential aids to those ramblers' who 'choose to stray' among the poetry and imaginative prose of a key contemporary English poet.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAuthor Note Introduction Note on the Text  I. Antebiography \tMeanwhile  \tAntebiography  \tBrum Born \tTalks for Words \tThe Morden Tower \tMy Trip to Brighton \tSix Towns \tMemoir of Richard Caddel \tAt the Funeral of Stuart Mills \tLicense My Roving Hands  II. \tRoy Fisher on Roy Fisher \tPoet on Writing \tNote on The Cut Pages \tRoy Fisher writes - Handsworth Compulsions \tPreface to A Furnace \tBirmingham's What I Think With: Programme Note \tReply to Paul Lester \tInside A Various Art\t \tRoy Fisher on Roy Fisher   III. On Poets and Others \tDeath by Adjectives \tDavid Prentice \tThe Green Fuse  \tMary Fitton's Foreshores\t \tOn John Cowper Powys' Letters \tThomas Campion \tOn a Study of Dada \tOn Ezra Pound \tDebt to Mr Bunting \tAt a Tangent \tOn a Study of Robert Creeley \tOn Kenneth Rexroth's An Autobiographical Novel \tGael Turnbull \tForeword to Spleen (Nicholas Moore\/Baudelaire) \tIntroduction to Jeff Nuttall's Selected Poems \tConcerning Joseph Brodsky \tCoat Hanger  A Checklist of Roy Fisher's Occasional Prose by Derek Slade","brand":"Shearsman Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51771608236375,"sku":"9781848613003","price":14.95,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781848613003.jpg?v=1758728486","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/an-easily-bewildered-child-occasional-prose-1963-2013-9781848613003","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}