Spirit Under Construction by JerryHarp Paperback, 82 Pages, Published 2017 by Neopoiesis Press, Llc ISBN-13: 978-0-9975021-7-6, ISBN: 0-9975021-7-7
""With a clear unsentimental lens on the past, Harp's smart and captivating poems dissect the remnants of time and what grief charges us with daily. Lyrically powerful and unique in their stark American landscape, these vibrating poems serve as ropes that pull us back into the river and out again towards a safer shore. Ada LimOn, author of Bright Dead Things: Poems "In this poignant collection, the perilous imperative to mark one's life ..."
For Us, What Music?(1st Edition) The Life and Poetry of Donald Justice by JerryHarp Paperback, 198 Pages, Published 2010 by University Of Iowa Press ISBN-13: 978-1-58729-911-7, ISBN: 1-58729-911-9
"When Donald Justice wrote in “On a Picture by Burchfield” that “art keeps long hours,” he might have been describing his own life. Although he early on struggled to find a balance between his life and art, the latter became a way of experiencing his life more deeply. He found meaning in human experience by applying traditional religious language to his artistic vocation. Central to his work was the translation of the language of devotio ..."
"A timely and informative collection, A Poetry Criticism Reader brings together eleven essays and reviews that constitute some of the best and most illuminating poetry criticism from the past decade. In his introduction to the book, editor-poet Jerry Harp gives an overview of poetry criticism and its pluralistic traditions after the high modernist years of T. S. Eliot. In the essays that follow, esteemed critics and poets explore vari ..."
Gatherings by JerryHarp Paperback, 64 Pages, Published 2004 by Ashland Poetry Press ISBN-13: 978-0-912592-55-8, ISBN: 0-912592-55-9
"Poetry. "These new poems are formally brilliant, playfully colloquial, and often very moving. Away from the fads and short-lived literary movements, Jerry Harp is at once technically masterful and deeply thoughtful" -- Kevin Prufer. Jerry Harp is the co-winner of the 2004 Robert McGovern Publication Prize."
"Saint Thomas More’s Utopia is one of the most important works of European humanism and serves as a key text in survey courses on Western intellectual history, the Renaissance, political theory, and many other subjects. Preeminent More scholar Clarence H. Miller does justice to the full range of More’s rhetoric in this masterful translation. In a new afterword to this edition, Jerry Harp contextualizes More’s life and Utopia within the w ..."
Urban Flowers, Concrete Plains (Salt Modern Poets S. ) by JerryHarp Paperback, 116 Pages, Published 2006 by Salt Publishing ISBN-13: 978-1-84471-273-1, ISBN: 1-84471-273-7
"Urban Flowers, Concrete Plains, Jerry Harp's third volume of poems, takes up where his first book, Creature (Salt Publishing, 2003), left off. The Creature continues his sojourn in the world, solitary, wandering, waiting for someone though he does not know who. He is his sole society, and he would select a place were someone to look his way. His language is a prison house, and he is himself the cell he seeks to escape. Although Harp's C ..."
Creature(1st Edition) (Salt Modern Poets) by JerryHarp, Juan Eslara Galan Paperback, 98 Pages, Published 2003 by Salt Publishing ISBN-13: 978-1-84471-028-7, ISBN: 1-84471-028-9
"This collection engages with traditional forms and carries out various kinds of experimentation centering on the physical meaning of life. The poems confront issues of cognitive, spiritual and erotic experience, and address longing and desire in the material world. The Creature yearns for new language in which we can all more truly live."
"Literary Nonfiction. Poetry History & Criticism. W. S. Merwin is a defining writer for our age, a poet who, over the course of sixty years and more than forty books, has created a body of work of enormous range, ambition, and complexity. He has served as the United States Poet Laureate and is the recipient of almost every major American award for poetry, including the 2005 National Book Award and two Pulitzer Prizes, first in 1971 and a ..."
Constant Motion Ongian Hermeneutics and the Shifting Ground of Early Modern Understanding (The Hampton Press Communication) by JerryHarp Hardcover, 172 Pages, Published 2009 by Hampton Press ISBN-13: 978-1-57273-917-8, ISBN: 1-57273-917-7
"This work will be of interest to literary scholars and students of the early modern period, as well as scholars of media ecology, communications, and the history of consciousness."
Constant Motion Ongian Hermeneutics and the Shifting Ground of Early Modern Understanding (Hampton Press Communication) by JerryHarp Paperback, 172 Pages, Published 2009 by Hampton Pr ISBN-13: 978-1-57273-918-5, ISBN: 1-57273-918-5
"Constant Motion complicates the idea that European consciousness has shifted, from the ancient world to the modern era, from an oral/aural to a largely visualist mode. While not denying the reality of a macro-level shift in the tradition of the schools to a metaphor of knowing as seeing clearly and distinctly, Harp emphasizes that acts of knowing are, like politics, always local. On the local level, cognition must engage with a variety ..."
"Clarence Miller's Humanism and Style: Essays on Erasmus and More provides an illuminating and circumstantial engagement with the important works of two great humanists, especially their masterpieces, The Praise of Folly and Utopia. He shows how they were deeply influenced by the very medieval world that they rejected as they were seeking to recover vital connections to the classics and the church fathers. Miller's essays cover a complex ..."
For Us, What Music? The Life and Poetry of Donald Justice by JerryHarp Published 2010 ISBN-13: 978-1-58729-944-5, ISBN: 1-58729-944-5