Seven Poets, Four Days, One Book
Publishing Details
Seven Poets, Four Days, One Book
By (Author) Dean Young
By (author) Christopher Merrill
By (author) Marvin Bell
By (author) Tomaz Salamun
By (author) Simone Inguanez
By (author) Istvan Laszlo Geher
By (author) Ksenia Golubovich
Trinity University Press,U.S.
Trinity University Press,U.S.
14th April 2009
United States
Classifications
General
Non Fiction
811.54
Physical Properties
96
Width 140mm, Height 191mm
270g
Description
Lauded poet Christopher Merrill hatched a brilliant plan: invite six other poets to join him in four days of writing in Iowa City. The poets would write for30 minutes, creating a poem of 15 lines, and then read it aloud to the group. As poets heard the poems, they noted memorable words, images, and lines, which they would borrow to insert in subsequent poems of their own. These rounds continued, until, in a process of call and response and unprecedented collaboration, 80 poems had been composed. Those 80 poems are collected in this book,penned by authors who represent some of the best and brightest the world of poetry has to offer. Transcending differences of generation, gender, language, and vision, these poets have invented an entirely new facetof the poet's creative process.
Reviews
"Christopher Merrill is one of the most gifted, audacious, and accomplished poets of an extraordinarily rich generation. His range of sympathy, subject, and tone has always been prodigious." -- W. S. Merwin
"Marvin Bell has the largest heart since Walt Whitman." -- Harvard Review
"Dean Young's work will delight only two kinds of people: those who generally read poetry and those who generally don't." -- Threepenny Review
"Tomaz Salamun's poems--one of Europe's great philosophical wonders." -- Jorie Graham
Author Bio
Marvin Bell's twenty-three books of poetry and essays include Vertigo: The Living Dead Man Poems, Whiteout (a collaboration with photographer Nathan Lyons), Mars Being Red, Rampant, Nightworks: Poems 1962-2000, The Book of the Dead Man, and Stars Which See, Stars Which Do Not See. His literary honors include awards from the Academy of American Poets and the American Academy of Arts and Letters, as well as Senior Fulbright appointments to Yugoslavia and Australia. He taught for forty years at the Iowa Writers' Workshop, teaches now for the brief-residency MFA based in Oregon at Pacific University, and lives in Iowa City, Iowa, and Port Townsend, Washington.
