Poetry. NICE HAT. THANKS....the reprint! Hand-stamped by Joshua Beckman; each cover is unique. NICE HAT. THANKS. is an innovative book based on the recorded improvised poetic collaborations between two award-winning poets, Joshua Beckman and Matthew Rohrer. NICE HAT. THANKS. is a collection of transcriptions of these collaborations, with poems ranging from a few words to several pages. Clever, often funny, and stylistically subtle, the poems on the page are a record of two innovative poetic voices engaged in serious play. Live public performances of these collaborations have met with excitement and enthusiasm across the country.

Author City: BROOKLYN, NY USA

Joshua Beckman was born in New Haven, Connecticut. He is the author of six books, including TAKE IT (Wave Books, 2009), SHAKE and two collaborations with Matthew Rohrer: NICE HAT. THANKS. and ADVENTURES WHILE PREACHING THE GOSPEL OF BEAUTY. He is an editor at Wave Books and has translated numerous works of poetry and prose, including POKER by Tomaž Šalamun, which was a finalist for the PEN America Poetry in Translation Award, and, with Alejandro de Acosta, MICROGRAMS by Jorge Carrera Andrade. He is also the recipient of numerous other awards, including a NYFA fellowship and a Pushcart Prize. He lives in Seattle and New York. Matthew Rohrer is the author of A Hummock in the Malookas (which won the 1994 National Poetry Series Open Competition), SATELLITE, A GREEN LIGHT (shortlisted for the 2005 Griffin International Poetry Prize), RISE UP, A PLATE OF CHICKEN, and DESTROYER AND PRESERVER. He's appeared on NPR's All Things Considered and The Next Big Thing, has been awarded the Avery Hopwood Prize for poetry and a Pushcart Prize, and has been widely anthologized. A chapbook-length action/adventure poem They All Seemed Asleep was published by Octopus Books in 2008. He teaches in the creative writing program at NYU and lives in Brooklyn.