Poetry. Beckman's new poems come to us directly and intimately. Compulsively readable, full of fear and persistence, they resonate with the wildness and generosity of Ginsberg, Whitman, and Ted Berrigan, turning the everyday into an encompassing, harrowing, humorous, necessary vision. Beckman is, as Publishers Weekly notes, "the real thing."

Author City: SEATTLE, WA USA

Joshua Beckman was born in New Haven, Connecticut. He is the author of seven 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 MICROGRAMS (translated with Alejandro de Acosta) by Jorge Carrera Andrade, 5 METERS OF POEMS by Carlos Oquendo de Amat, and POKER by Tomaž Šalamun, which was a finalist for the PEN America Poetry in Translation Award. He is also the recipient of numerous other awards, including a NYFA fellowship and a Pushcart Prize. He lives in Seattle and New York.

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