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The Lives of the Poems and Three Talksby Joshua Beckman (Wave Books, paperback)
Publication Date:May 1, 2018
Publisher Marketing:During 2014, Wave Books editor Joshua Beckman traveled around the country giving lectures on poetry. Collected here as two books in conversationand inaugurating Wave’s Bagley Wright Lecture Series publicationsthese 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 thatthrough repetition and adjustment, a sort of echolocatingilluminate 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.
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