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J. H. Prynne's work is collected in three editions of Poems (1999, 2005, 2015). He has also published a wide range of critical and academic prose including works on Saussere, Wordsworth, and Shakespeare and written poetry in Classical Chinese under the name of Pu Ling-en. A Life Fellow of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, he retired from his posts teaching English Literature as a Lecturer and University Reader in English Poetry for the University of Cambridge and as Director of Studies in English for Gonville and Caius College in 2005. In 2006, he retired as Librarian of the College. Peter Gizzi is the author of several poetry collections, including Threshold Songs, The Outernationale, and most recently, In Defense of Nothing- Selected Poems, 1987-2011. He has served as the poetry editor for The Nation and as founding editor of oblek- a journal of language arts. He has been awarded the Peter I. B. Lavan Younger Poet Award from the Academy of American Poets as well as fellowships from the Howard Foundation, the Rex Foundation, and the Guggenheim Foundation. In 2011 he was the Judith E. Wilson Visiting Fellow in Poetry at Cambridge University. He currently teaches at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.
[Prynne's poetry] can induce the same combinations of fear and wonder once associated with the sublime...It is undeniable that his poetry offers both pleasures and challenges of an unusually complex kind: and it is for precisely this reason that many people will testify, without hyperbole or sentimentality, that his poetry has changed their lives. --Robert Potts, <i>The Guardian</i> Prynne's work is challenging, yes, but also funny...politically incisive, erotic, and philosophical. It puts into play the most diverse range of discourses imaginable and doesn't make it easy for the reader to decide how or even with what attitude to respond...Prynne's work reminds us that poetry, besides offering a variety of sensorial and emotional pleasures, can be something with which to think. --Forrest Gander, <i>Chicago Review</i>
