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Lectures that meander, accumulate, and adjust in an echolocating search for the in-between places where poetry lives.
List of contents
THE LIVES OF THE POEMS
Introduction
[ Spokane - January 27, 2014 ]
[ New York - April 2014 ]
[ Tucson - September 2014 ]
Three Talks
Introduction
The Friend the Stranger & the Anonymous Spirit
Friendship, Porousness & the Intimate Experience of Poetry
On Books
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 Tomaž Šalamun, 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.
Summary
Lectures that meander, accumulate, and adjust in an echolocating search for the in-between places where poetry lives.
Foreword
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- Beckman travels extensively and is well-known in many communities of poets in New York, San Francisco, Los Angeles, and elsewhere.
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