Ian Hamilton Finlay: Selections Volume 8

by Ian Hamilton Finlay

Book Overview

This volume surveys the life and work of the Scottish poet Ian Hamilton Finlay, who is best known for his extraordinary garden, Little Sparta, a unique "poem of place" in which poetry, sculpture, and horticulture intersect. This book directs sustained attention to Finlay the verbal artist, revealing the full breadth and richness of his poetics. It illuminates the evolution from his early years of composing plays, stories, and lyrical poems to his discovery of Concrete poetry and his emergence as a key figure in the international avant-garde of the 1960s.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520270592
• ISBN13: 9780520270596
• Release Date: April 2012
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 334 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.4" x 8.2"