The Strangest of Theatres : Poets Writing Across Borders

ISBN 10: 1938073266 ISBN 13: 9781938073267
Verlag: McSweeney's Publishing, 2013
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Explores how poet world travelers can serve as envoys to the wider world and revitalize American poetry, collecting original and reprinted essays by contemporary poets including Elizabeth Bishop, Naomi Shihab Nye and Nick Flynn on how their travels abroad have enhanced their creative lives.

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Series Editor: Ilya Kaminsky is the Director of the Harriet Monroe Poetry Institute at the Poetry Foundation. He is the author of Dancing in Odessa, and co-editor of The Ecco Anthology of International Poetry.

Jared Hawkley is a poet and freelance editor from Vancouver. He's been a contributing editor to The Best American Nonrequired Reading; White Collar, Blue Collar, No Collar; and books of student writing for the educational nonprofit 826michigan, including Don't Stay Up So Late, a treasury of bedtime stories. He has written for newspapers and blogs, designed record jackets, led hikes up fourteeners in Rocky Mountain National Park, and given dogsled tours in the northern woods of Minnesota. He lives in Oakland.

Susan Rich has traveled to Bosnia Herzegovina, South Africa, and the West Bank as a human rights activist and electoral supervisor. She has worked as a Peace Corps Volunteer, a Program Coordinator for Amnesty International and now teaches English and Film Studies at Highline Community College outside Seattle, WA. Susan is the author of three collections of poetry, The Alchemist’s Kitchen (2010) named a finalist for the Foreword Prize and the Washington State Book Award, Cures Include Travel (2006), and The Cartographer’s Tongue / Poems of the World (2000) winner of the PEN USA Award for Poetry all published by White Pine Press. She has received awards from The Times Literary Supplement of London, Peace Corps Writers and the Fulbright Foundation. You can find her on the web at www.susanrich.net

Brian Turner is the author of Here, Bullet and Phantom Noise (both from Alice James Books). He received a USA Hillcrest Fellowship in Literature, an NEA Literature Fellowship in Poetry, the Amy Lowell Traveling Fellowship, the US-Japan Friendship Commission grant, the Poets’ Prize, and a Fellowship from the Lannan Foundation. His work has appeared on National Public Radio, the BBC, Newshour with Jim Lehrer, and Weekend America, among others. He is the director of the low-residency MFA program at Sierra Nevada College.

Consulting Editor: Catherine Barnett
Catherine Barnett is the author of two collections of poems,Into Perfect Spheres Such Holes Are Pierced (Alice James Books, 2004) and The Game of Boxes (Graywolf Press, 2012). She has received a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Whiting Writers' Award, the Glasgow Prize for Emerging Writers, and a Pushcart. Her poems have appeared in The American Poetry Review, The Kenyon Review, Pleiades, TriQuarterly, Virginia Quarterly Review, The Washington Post, and other publications. She works as an independent editor and teaches at Barnard, The New School, NYU, and Poets House.

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Titel: The Strangest of Theatres : Poets Writing ...
Verlag: McSweeney's Publishing
Erscheinungsdatum: 2013
Einband: Hardcover
Zustand: Very Good
Auflage: 0th Edition.

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Hawkley, Jared; Rich, Susan; Turner, Brian
Verlag: McSweeney's, 2013
ISBN 10: 1938073266 ISBN 13: 9781938073267
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Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. ex library book, binding and text in very good condition, binding tight and square no damage, text clean and unmarked, standard library markings. Artikel-Nr. 020595

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