# The Revisionist and the Astropastorals: Collected Poems - Hardcover

by **Douglas Crase** (Author), **Mark Ford** (Foreword by)

MacArthur "genius" Douglas Crase is best known for his invocations and revisions of Whitmanian transcendentalism. Out of print since 1987, his book _The Revisionist_ has still been enough in some opinions to establish him as one of the most important poets of his generation; on its strength, says the Oxford Book of American Poetry, rests a formidable underground reputation. Now, by combining _The Revisionist_ with Crase's chapbook _The Astropastorals_ in a new collection, Nightboat Books presents his formidable reputation to a wider public for the first time in thirty-two years.

### Author Biography

Douglas Crase was born in 1944 in Battle Creek, Michigan, raised on a nearby farm, and educated at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton. A former speechwriter, he was described in the Times Literary Supplement as the unusual case of a contemporary poet whose most public, expansive voice is his most authentic. His work has been widely anthologized and he has received a Witter Bynner Award, Whiting Writers' Award, and fellowships from the Guggenheim and MacArthur foundations for both his poetry and essays. He lives in New York and Carley Brook, Pennsylvania.

**Number of Pages:** 160

**Dimensions:** 0.8 x 8.8 x 5.9 IN

**Publication Date:** October 15, 2019

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