Description
Literary Nonfiction. Poetry. During 2014, Wave Books editor Joshua Beckman traveled around the country giving lectures on poetry. Collected here as two books in conversation—and inaugurating Wave's Bagley Wright Lecture Series publications—these talks provide a rare and unique insight into a deeply literary life. In THE LIVES OF THE POEMS, Beckman offers three variations of the same talk that—through repetition and adjustment, a sort of echolocating—illuminate the intimate experience of making a particular set of poems. In THREE TALKS, he explores the fluid social dynamics of poetry as it lives between readers, poems, and books.
Author Bio
Joshua Beckman was born in New Haven, Connecticut. He is the author of many books, including ANIMAL DAYS (Wave Books, 2021), THE LIVES OF THE POEMS AND THREE TALKS (Wave Books, 2018), THE INSIDE OF AN APPLE (Wave Books, 2013), TAKE IT (Wave Books, 2009), SHAKE (Wave Books, 2006), YOUR TIME HAS COME (Verse Press/Wave Books, 2004), 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 (Wave Books, 2015).
Author City: SEATTLE, WA USA