The Traveler's Vade Mecum - by Helen Klein Ross (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>Everyman's meets Twitter. Most anthologies gather poems already written. This is a crowd-sourced compilation of new poems, inspired by a tweet that linked the anthologist to an historical document. It's a compendium of new works by sixty-five poets, including some of the most celebrated working today. For poetry lovers and lovers of history.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br>The original <i>Traveler's Vade Mecum</i>, published in 1853, contained thousands of telegrams. Ross chose telegrams as titles for poems solicited from dozens of poets, including Bollingen Prize winner Frank Bidart and former US Poet Laureate Billy Collins to create a digital-age compendium of old-world poetics. Here are lyric poems, language poems, prose poems, found poems, haikus, pantoums, ekphrases, epistolary poems, acrostics, sonnets and mirror sonnets. Demonstrating the range of what poetry can do, this book provides a fascinating glimpse into the habits and social aspects of 19th century America--and shows how we have evolved 163 years later.<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>"Essential reading for poetry lovers and experimenters, <i>The Travelers's Vade Mecum </i>dramatically and wittily expands the notion of the literary prompt." <br> --Billy Collins, United States Poet Laureate <br><br><br>"Helen Klein Ross connects poets of today to a clever telegraphic idea from yesterday, and in doing so re-introduces readers to A. C. Baldwin, a 19th century consumer advocate whose vision and persistence impacted the world in unexpected ways." <br> --Ralph Nader, Father of modern American consumer movement, author, Founder of American Museum of Tort Law <br><br><br>"In an inspired rediscovery of A. C. Baldwin's <i>The Traveler's Vade Mecum</i>, Helen Klein Ross and her poets have magically transformed an obscure 19th century invention into lyrical gold." <br> --Arthur Molella, Director Emeritus, Smithsonian National Museum of American History <br><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br>Helen Klein Ross is a poet and novelist whose work has appeared in <i>The New Yorker</i>, <i>The Los Angeles Times</i>, <i> The New York Times</i>, <i> Salmagundi</i>, and in <i>The Iowa Review</i>, where it won the 2014 Iowa Review award in poetry. Her writing has been anthologized in <i>Best of the Bellevue Literary Review </i>(2008), <i>Best of Gigantic </i>(2015), and in <i>SHORT: Five Centuries of Short-Short Stories, Prose Poems, Brief Essays, and Other Short Prose Forms</i> (Persea Books, 2013). Her admiration for those editors has increased during the creation of this anthology. <p/> Helen is the author of two novels and 16,400 tweets. Her most recent book is <i>What Was Mine</i> (Simon & Schuster / Gallery, 2016). <p/> She graduated from Cornell University and received an MFA from The New School. She lives with her husband in Manhattan and Salisbury, CT. <br>
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