Mark Rudman

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Biographical note:  Mark Rudman is the author of nine books of poetry and four of prose, most recently The Book of Samuel. He is the recipient of many grants and awards, including the National Book Critics Award for Rider. He resides in New York City where he lives with his wife and son and turtle “T” about whom a new book has been written. He is finishing Identification of a Woman, and a collection of shorter poems called Which Tribe Do You Belong To. He teaches poetry and practice at New York University and has edited the international literary journal PEQUOD.

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EAN13:  9781876857707
ISBN:  9781876857707
Author:  Mark Rudman
Title:  The Motel En Route to Life Out There
Series:  Salt Modern Poets
Product class:  BC
Language:  eng
Audience:  General/trade
BIC subject category:  CTCH1
Publisher:  Salt Publishing
Pub date:  15-Sep-10
Extent:  244pp
Height:  216 mm
Width:  140 mm
Thickness:  14 mm
Weight:  366 gms
Supplier:   Gardners Books
Supplier:   Ingram Book Group
Supplier:   Inbooks (James Bennett)
Availability:  NP
Price:  GBP 13.99
Price:  USD 16.95
Rights:  World

Short description/annotation:  This book is set in landscapes and dramatic situations that reflect the state of the spirit. It argues the necessity of emptying, of going backward before attempting to move forward, of facing the vacancy, emptiness, inertia. Waste Spaces conflates The Waste Books and The Waste Land and Theodore Roethke’s line “The waste spaces behind the eye."

Main description:  This book is set in landscapes and dramatic situations that reflect the state of the spirit. It argues the necessity of emptying, of going backward before attempting to move forward, of facing the vacancy, emptiness, inertia. Waste Spaces conflates The Waste Books and The Waste Land and Theodore Roethke’s line “The waste spaces behind the eye."

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Unpublished endorsement:  The Millennium Hotel enlarges upon the themes that appeared in Rider and includes several of the same players and personae. The books build upon each other to create an increasingly rich linguistic world. Rudman is writing a sophisticated poetry of polyphonic voices. He engages the questions of the subject position and the construction of the self obliquely, in poems that ‘think on their feet.’

Alice Fulton

Unpublished endorsement:  We could say of Mark Rudman what he says of D. H. Lawrence: ‘He isn’t so much part of the present as he is of the instantaneous.” Urgent, quicksilver, unpredictable, Rudman’s essays pay homage to his masters Lawrence, Williams, Lowry, and move, as they move, in swoops, feints, and lunges toward revelation.

Rosanna Warren

Review quote:  Here, happily, is the public poetry of a private person

Roger Mitchell
The American Book Review

Review quote:  A sentient self emerges clearly in Mark Rudman’s work—complex, despairing, seeking to confront the contradictions offered up by contemporary urban life

Leslie Ullman
New York Times Book Review

Review quote:  In The Couple, Mark Rudman has woven an extraordinarily rich and highly original tapestry. It’s an impressive achievement.

Harold Pinter