Poetry

With their hard\-edged, street\-wise prose, they created frighteningly probable futures of high\-tech societies and low\-life hustlers. Fans and critics call their world cyberpunk. Here is the definitive "cyberpunk" short fiction collection. Contents: The Gernsback Continuum (1981\) by William Gibson Snake\-Eyes (1986\) by Tom Maddox Rock On (1984\) by Pat Cadigan Tales of Houdini (1981\) by Rudy Rucker 400 Boys (1983\) by Marc Laidlaw Solstice (1985\) by James Patrick Kelly Petra (1982\) by Greg Bear Till Human Voices Wake Us (1984\) by Lewis Shiner Freezone (1985\) by John Shirley Stone Lives (1985\) by Paul Di Filippo Red Star, Winter Orbit (1983\) by William Gibson and Bruce Sterling Mozart in Mirrorshades (1984\) by Bruce Sterling and Lewis Shiner

Faber are pleased to announce the relaunch of the poetry list - starting in Spring 2001 and continuing, with publication dates each month, for the rest of the year. This will involve a new jacket design recalling the typographic virtues of the classic Faber poetry covers, connecting the backlist and the new titles within a single embracing cover solution. A major reissue program is scheduled, to include classic individual collections from each decade, some of which have long been unavailable: Wallace Stevens' Harmonium and Ezra Pound's Personae from the 1920s; W.H. Auden's Poems (1930); Robert Lowell's Life Studies from the 1950s; John Berryman's 77 Dream Songs and Philip Larkin's The Whitsun Weddings from the 1960s; Ted Hughes' Gaudete and Seamus Heaney's Field Work from the 1970s; Michael Hofmann's Acrimony and Douglas Dunn's Elegies from the 1980s. Timed to celebrate publication of Seamus Heaney's new collection, Electric Light, the relaunch is intended to re-emphasize the predominance of Faber Poetry, and to celebrate a series which has played a shaping role in the history of modern poetry since its inception in the 1920s.

Important poems by the late New York poet published in The New American Poetry, Evergreen Review, Floating Bear and stranger places. Often O'Hara, strolling through the noisy splintered glare of a Manhattan noon, has paused at a sample Olivetti to type up thirty or forty lines of ruminations, or pondering more deeply has withdrawn to a darkened ware- or firehouse to limn his computed misunderstandings of the eternal questions of life, coexistence, and depth, while never forgetting to eat lunch, his favorite meal.