Citizens of Ordinary Time

In this collaborative poetic endeavour, Benjamin Goluboff (Ho Chi Minh: A Speculative Life in Verse) and Mark Luebbers (Flat Light) project the lives of eclectic and memorable people through speculative biography. Renowned in their use of this poetic style, here we see the likes Robert Frank, Bill Evans, Gerda Taro, Robert Capa, and others in imagined glimmers from their lives. In unique work that follows in the line of Spoon River Anthology, we are invited along for poetic experience that couples historical fact with deep-dive lyric experience. These are poems of experience, ones that let readers feel and hear and witness history in a way that makes it very real, almost personal, and leaves a lasting memory and lingering feelings.

About the author

Benjamin Goluboff teaches at Lake Forest College. In addition to some scholarly publications, he has placed imaginative writing - poetry, fiction, and essays - in many small-press journals, recently Unbroken, Cordite Poetry Review, and War Literature and the Arts. He is the author of Ho Chi Minh: A Speculative Life in Verse (Urban Farmhouse Press 2017).

Product details

• Authors: Benjamin Goluboff, Benjamin Goluboff, Mark Luebbers, Mark Luebbers
• Publisher: Harper Collins
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.06.2023
• EAN: 9781988214504
• ISBN: 978-1-988214-50-4
• Dimensions: 148 mm x 210 mm x 8 mm
• Weight: 181 g
• Series: Crossroads Poetry
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Biography: general, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / General, Poetry, POETRY / American / General, Poetry; history; speculative; biography