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The Lives of the Poems and Three Talks
During 2014, Wave Books editor Joshua Beckman traveled around the country giving lectures on poetry. Collected here as two books in conversation--and inaugurating Wave's Bagley Wright Lecture Series publications--these talks provide a rare and unique insight into a deeply literary life. In The Lives of the Poems, Beckman offers three variations of the same talk that--through repetition and adjustment, a sort of echolocating--illuminate the intimate experience of making a particular set of poems. In Three Talks, he explores the fluid social dynamics of poetry as it lives between readers, poems, and books.
Book Details
- Publisher: Wave Books
- Publish Date: May 1st, 2018
- Pages: 240
- Language: English
- Edition: undefined - undefined
- Dimensions: 8.20in - 6.00in - 0.60in - 0.60lb
- EAN: 9781940696423
- Categories: • American - General• Modern - 21st Century• Books & Reading
About the Author
Joshua Beckman was born in New Haven, Connecticut. He is the author of many books, including The Lives of the Poems and Three Talks, The Inside of an Apple, Take It, Shake, Your Time Has Come, and two collaborations with Matthew Rohrer: Nice Hat. Thanks. and Adventures While Preaching the Gospel of Beauty. He is editor-in-chief at Wave Books and has translated numerous works of poetry and prose, including Micrograms, by Jorge Carrera Andrade, 5 Meters of Poems (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2010) by Carlos Oquendo de Amat and Poker (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2008) by Tomaz Salamun, which was a finalist for the PEN America Poetry in Translation Award. He also co-edited Supplication: Selected Poems of John Wieners. Beckman is the recipient of numerous awards, including a NYFA fellowship and a Pushcart Prize. He lives in Seattle and New York.
Praise for this book
"Beckman wistfully takes to the road and does the incredible work of writing poems full of desire, for a world in the midst of radical upheaval."--Publishers Weekly
"If you take a broad squint at our nation's new poets you can find two general strategies: poets who are carrying the torch, and poets who are using it to start fires. And then we have Joshua Beckman. He seems to be doing everything."--Daniel Handler, The Believer
"Beckman's soulful theatrics...have taken the humorous lyric to new heights, but perhaps less readily appreciated is Beckman's mastery, not just of the quotidian, but of the tragic."--Virginia Konchan, Rattle
"Beckman traces the development of his ideas, many accompanied by images of long-hand edits, and gives his audience not only insight into making a poem, but the hope that they, too, can make a poem."
--Valerie Wieland, NewPages