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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 for 30 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 facet of the poet’s creative process.
Price: $14.99
Pages: 96
Publisher: Trinity University Press
Imprint: Trinity University Press
Publication Date:
15 April 2011
ISBN: 9781595340993
Format: eBook
“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
“Tomaž Šalamun's poems—one of Europe's great philosophical wonders.” — Jorie Graham
“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
“Tomaž Šalamun's poems—one of Europe's great philosophical wonders.” — Jorie Graham
Marvin Bell's nineteen books of poetry and essays include 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, the American Academy of Arts and Letters, Poetry and the American Poetry Review, as well as Guggenheim and NEA fellowships and Senior Fulbright appointments to Yugoslavia and Australia. He has taught for decades at the Iowa Writers' Workshop, and lives in Iowa City, Iowa, and Port Townsend, Washington.