Yours Presently

The Selected Letters of John Wieners

AvEileen Myles,Michael Seth Stewart

Häftad, Engelska, 2024

Del i serien Recencies Series: Research and Recovery in Twentieth-Century American Poetics

706 kr

Beställningsvara. Skickas inom 3-6 vardagar. Fri frakt över 249 kr.

Beskrivning

Boston born and bred, John Wieners was a queer self-styled poÃ¨te maudit who was renowned among his contemporaries but ignored by mainstream critics. Twenty-first-century readers are correcting this elision, placing Wieners back alongside his better-known peers, including Allen Ginsberg, Charles Olson, Denise Levertov, and Amiri Baraka. Wieners was a voluble letter writer, maintaining friendships with these contemporaries that spanned decades and tackling a range of complex issues that resonate today, including drug use, homosexuality, subcultures of the East and West Coasts, and the differing treatment of mental patients based on their economic class. The letters collected in this volume are greatly enhanced by Eileen Myles's preface and Stewart's thorough introduction, notes, and brief bios of the poets, writers, artists, and editors with whom Wieners corresponded. The result is more than the letters of a poet--it is a history that explores the world at large in the mid-twentieth century.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2024-06-15
Mått:156 x 234 x 24 mm
Vikt:272 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Recencies Series: Research and Recovery in Twentieth-Century American Poetics
Antal sidor:360
Förlag:University of New Mexico Press
ISBN:9780826366351

Utforska kategorier

Sanna berättelser inom Biografier
Litteraturvetenskap inom Skönlitteratur

Mer om författaren

Michael Seth Stewart teaches English at the University of Alabama. He is also the editor of Stars Seen in Person: Selected Journals of John Wieners.

Recensioner i media

"The passion, intelligence, and humility of John Wieners shines beautifully in Yours Presently. Michael Seth Stewart skillfully draws out the history and discusses constructions of literary coterie, small press activities, editing, funding, and performance to illustrate the primary concerns of poets in the mid-twentieth century while also locating those terms within the often troubled and sensitive reality of Wieners's experience."--Dale M. Smith, coeditor of An Open Map: The Correspondence of Robert Duncan and Charles Olson

Innehållsförteckning

List of IllustrationsPreface. JohnEileen MylesAcknowledgments""Until the dark hours are done"": An IntroductionA Note on the TextPart One. ""a living that counted""Chapter One. Spring 1955-August 1956Chapter Two. January 1957-August 1957Chapter Three. September 1957-December 1959Part Two. ""Absent Verse Forms""Chapter Four. January 1960-May 1963Chapter Five. October 1963-July 1965Chapter Six. August 1965-November 1969Part Three. ""What can I do but shine / in memory""Chapter Seven. January 1970-February 1971Chapter Eight. April 1972-January 1976Chapter Nine. July 1984-January 1997Glossary of NamesBibliographyIndex