SupplicationSelected Poems of John Wieners

Selected Poems of John Wieners

Cover Art for 9781940696195, SupplicationSelected Poems of John Wieners by John Wieners
ISBN: 9781940696195
Publisher: Wave Books
Published: 6 October, 2015
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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"There is no doubt in my mind or in anyone's mind who knows these poems well that they are major American poetry and will be in anthologies for one hundred years, I mean that good."Allen Ginsberg "A graceful rigor seems to be Wieners' natural mode; we feel the force of deliberation in his most free formshe is never casual. The grace is miraculous, for he aims at intensities, by orders that shape and then restrict feeling to the ardent."Robert Duncan "What moves us is not the darkness of the world in which the poems were written by the pity and terror and joy that is beauty in the poems themselves...In Wieners the glamor is in the word-music itself."Denise Levertov Supplication: Selected Poems of John Wieners gathers work by one of the most significant poets of the Black Mountain and Beat generation. Includes poems that have previously never been published, the full text of the 1958 edition of his influential The Hotel Wentley Poems , plus poems from rare sources, facsimiles, notes, and collages by Wieners. An invaluable collection for new and old fans. John Wieners (19342002) was a founding member of the "New American" poetry that flourished in America after the Second World War. Upon graduating from Boston College in 1954, Wieners enrolled in the final class of Black Mountain College. Following Black Mountain's closure in 1956, he founded the small magazine Measure (19571962) and embarked on a peripatetic life, participating in poetry communities in Boston, San Francisco, New York, and Buffalo throughout the late 1950s and 1960s, before settling at 44 Joy Street in Boston in 1972. He is the author of seven collections of poetry, three one-act plays, and numerous broadsides, pamphlets, uncollected poems, and journals. Robert Creeley described Wieners as "the greatest poet of emotion" of their time. "

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