After the Fact If and When and Here and Now |
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| Author:
| Merrill, Christopher
Bell, Marvin |
| ISBN: | 978-1-945680-72-4 |
| Publication Date: | May 2024 |
| Publisher: | White Pine Press
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $18.00 |
Book Description:
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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...
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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.