The Lives of the Poems and Three Talks - (Bagley Wright Lecture) by Joshua Beckman (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>Lectures that meander, accumulate, and adjust in an echolocating search for the in-between places where poetry lives.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br>During 2014, Wave Books editor Joshua Beckman traveled around the country giving lectures on poetry. Collected here as two books in conversation--and inaugurating Wave's Bagley Wright Lecture Series publications--these talks provide a rare and unique insight into a deeply literary life. In <em>The Lives of the Poems</em>, Beckman offers three variations of the same talk that--through repetition and adjustment, a sort of echolocating--illuminate the intimate experience of making a particular set of poems. In <em>Three Talks</em>, he explores the fluid social dynamics of poetry as it lives between readers, poems, and books.<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br><p>Beckman traces the development of his ideas, many accompanied by images of long-hand edits, and gives his audience not only insight into making a poem, but the hope that they, too, can make a poem.<br />--Valerie Wieland, <em>NewPages</em></p><br><br>Beckman wistfully takes to the road and does the incredible work of writing poems full of desire, for a world in the midst of radical upheaval.--<em>Publishers Weekly</em></p> <p><br />If you take a broad squint at our nation's new poets you can find two general strategies: poets who are carrying the torch, and poets who are using it to start fires. And then we have Joshua Beckman. He seems to be doing everything.--Daniel Handler, <em>The Believer</em><br /><br />Beckman's soulful theatrics...have taken the humorous lyric to new heights, but perhaps less readily appreciated is Beckman's mastery, not just of the quotidian, but of the tragic.--Virginia Konchan, <em>Rattle</em><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><strong>Joshua Beckman</strong> was born in New Haven, Connecticut. He is the author of many books, including <em>The Lives of the Poems and Three Talks</em>, <em>The Inside of an Apple</em>, <em>Take It</em>, <em>Shake</em>, <em>Your Time Has Come, </em> and two collaborations with Matthew Rohrer: <em>Nice Hat. Thanks</em><em>.</em> and <em>Adventures While Preaching the Gospel of Beauty</em>. He is editor-in-chief at Wave Books and has translated numerous works of poetry and prose, including <em>Micrograms</em>, by Jorge Carrera Andrade, <em>5 Meters of Poems</em> (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2010) by Carlos Oquendo de Amat and <em>Poker</em> (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2008) by Tomaz Salamun, which was a finalist for the PEN America Poetry in Translation Award. He also co-edited <em>Supplication: Selected Poems of John Wieners</em>. Beckman is the recipient of numerous awards, including a NYFA fellowship and a Pushcart Prize. He lives in Seattle and New York.
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