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from “The King” by Ben Mazer

You might have been anyone. Your relatives, anyone. The place—where were we?—might have been any place. After dinner and talk that can only go so far we moved beyond the doorbell as if to be understood by going so far—no direction but to fall in the betweenness of hours up the zig zag streets when no one calls and everything repeats the insistent identityless rhythm that is our shield and passport—unhearable beats seeking the eternal and lost child. Unanswerable and hung up on a star like all the nights we died anonymous moving dead leaves like beads across the wind, retiring all our talk in the monstrous dark.

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It is at times like these, when the sun of a once-great literary reputation has set, that we should be grateful for an opportunity to re-assess the work, to see it again, as if for the first time.

— Robert Archambeau, “John Crowe Ransom’s Quarrel With Himself” in The Hudson Review

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Down sit we, small of appetite;

The pie is opened; out the creatures rush And flutter pitiful in the cold light; They sing a little, but had better hush; For all the gods have vanished in the cold, And Troy is fallen, and the world is old; A bitter tale, and better far untold.

from The Feasting of Maionides and Stephen Daedalus

from The Collected Poems of John Crowe Ransom, edited by Ben Mazer

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Classic Ransom Ryan Wilson From: The Hopkins Review Volume 9, Number 1, Winter 2016 (New Series) pp. 6-27 | 10.1353/thr.2016.0016

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RANSOM, THE EQUILIBRIST, A.E. Stallings for ESSAYS IN CRITICISM The Collected Poems of John Crowe Ransom. Edited by BEN MAZER

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“Ransom’s portraits of Miriam Tazewell, Miss Euphemia, Emily Hardcastle, Conrad, Minnie, and others unnamed have their heavy-handed ironies, and even their cruelties; but they come from looking hard at other people and refusing to look away.”

DECEMBER 2015 “Under the skin” by William Logan on The Collected Poems of John Crowe Ransom edited by Ben Mazer

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Partisan's Year in Books: A.E. STALLINGS Selects The Collected Poems of John Crowe Ransom

When Partisan asked some of our favourite writers and contributors to tell us about the books that mattered to them in 2015, we were inundated with stocking stuffers and door-stoppers, small press gems and bestsellers, the timely and the timeless, and even a book that isn’t yet published. So we’ve dedicated our whole week to their recommendations. Read the first and second installments. Today: the final entry in Partisan's Year in Books.

A.E. STALLINGS There were a number of big events this year in poetry publishing, but I would like to give a shout out to the major minor poet John Crowe Ransom, in the gorgeous and meticulous edition by Ben Mazer, The Collected Poems of John Crowe Ransom.

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Partisan's Year in Books, Part Three DECEMBER 17, 2015

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“Ben Mazer has done us a great service in producing this mighty and handsome Collected Poems, which enables us to see the whole picture...”

Most sympathetic, John Greening for the TLS, Literature & Poetry 04 November 2015

Ben Mazer, editor The Collected Poems of John Crowe Ransom

ISBN: 978-0-9829198-6-6 (Un-Gyve Press)

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