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Frederick Turner, Founders Professor of Arts & Humanities at the University
of Texas, Dallas, is a futurist, critic, cultural commentator, and a poet
with eight published collections. In addition, he has written numerous books
of of critical and cultural commentary, including The Culture of Hope,
described by Harvard's E.O. Wilson as a book that "takes us beyond the wreckage
of postmodernism to revive the dream of the unification of science and the
humanities...." Turner, with Dick Allen and Fred Feirstein, was a co-founder
of the Expansive poetry movement several decades ago. He has recently raised
his strong voice against a narrow group of left-wing academic poets who propose
to define the art as solely that work in opposition to the historical idea
and the contemporary politics of the United States.
EP&M Online Bookstore is proud to have four of Frederick Turner's
titles available.
Genesis
Saybrook Publishing Co., 1988, 303 pp., $25
An extraordinary story, Genesis not only tells of the political
and scientific struggle to terraform Mars, but is an epic that ranges into
deep philosophy, social commentary and myth. "A prodigious work, possessing
considerable grandeur..." -- Brian Aldiss
Hadean Eclogues
Story Line Press, 1999, 126 pp., $25
"Like the great eclogues of the past, his nature poems and lyrical meditations
are suffused with a powerful ethical vision. In them, Puck and Pan cavort
gaily with the tragic figure of Christ; myth, religious parable, and science
fiction are genetically recombined into lyrical new forms of being." --
Paul Lake
The Garden
Ptyx, 1985, 120 pp., $20
"An extended ars poetica, an argument for a way of life...." -- Charles
Edward Eaton
"A joy and a marvel -- it leaves me dazzled, envious, but perhaps most of
all relieved: after the years we've bowed our heads, with varying degrees
of docility, beneath a rain of poems at best merely "real" and, except by
their scale (gross or mignon) and the sheen or wartiness of their skins,
impossible to tell from one another -- at last to know that someone is still
concerned and humble enough to provide the surrounding garden!" -- James
Merrill
The Ballad of the Good Cowboy
The Maverick Press, 1997, 20 pp., $30
"Frederick Turner ingeniously marries the American Tall Tale to the Medieval
Romance. In colloquial blank verse and Remington-like imagery, Turner effectively
tells the story of three cowboys -- knights on a quest to rescue an imprisoned
Christ. The ballad also subtly explores philosophical issues about America
and its struggles for its own spiritual identity." -- Frederick Feirstein
In a rare, hand-sewn, limited and numbered edition, signed by both the
author and the cover artist.
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