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Overview
A iterary testament to friendship and the ways in which a vibrant collaboration can inspire poets to plumb the depths of their experiences.
The concluding volumes of a ten-year-long conversation in prose poetry between the award-winning poets Marvin Bell and Christopher Merrill. They write from different generations and places around the world on a range of themes from memory to politics, aging and mortality, the vagaries of desire and the imagination.Bell and Merrill wanted to create a wide-ranging dialogue to explore the meaning not only of their separate experiences but of the very ways in which a collaboration fosters a deeper engagement with each other--and the world. In his penultimate message to Merrill, written just hours before he suffered a heart attack from which he never recovered, Bell said that what he loved about their collaboration was that each new prose poem defined his immediate future--which was what After the Fact provided both of them for ten glorious years.Customers Also Bought
Details
- ISBN-13: 9781945680724
- ISBN-10: 1945680725
- Publisher: White Pine Press (NY)
- Publish Date: May 2024
- Dimensions: 8.9 x 6 x 0.5 inches
- Shipping Weight: 0.5 pounds
- Page Count: 150
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