that which belongs together by birth, fr. He lives in Brooklyn, New York, and teaches at NYU.Gentle reader - kind reader (form of address used by an author when addressing a reader) … English contemporary dictionary
#The gentle reader series#
His first book, A Hummock in the Malookas was selected for the National Poetry Series by Mary Oliver in 1994. He has appeared on NPR’s All Things Considered and The Next Big Thing. (Verse Press, 2002), and the audio CD Adventures While Preaching the Gospel of Beauty. He is also the author of Satellite (Verse Press, 2001), and co-author, with Joshua Beckman, of Nice Hat. Matthew Rohrer is the author of Surrounded by Friends (Wave Books, 2015), Destroyer and Preserver (Wave Books, 2011), A Plate of Chicken (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2009), Rise Up (Wave Books, 2007) and A Green Light (Verse Press, 2004), which was shortlisted for the 2005 Griffin Poetry Prize. He is the “Poet Laureate” of Machine Project and also teaches courses at the California Institute of the Arts. The speaker spends most of the poem telling readers, and it as it turns out their own father, not to give into death peacefully and calmly. He lives in Los Angeles and teaches in the University of California-Riverside's Palm Desert MFA program. ‘Do not go gentle into that good night by Dylan Thomas is a moving poem that defines death and tells readers to defy it and rage against it for as long as possible. In addition to these three collections, he is one of the authors of Gentle Reader! (2007), a book of erasures of the English Romantics, along with Joshua Beckman and Matthew Rohrer. He is the author of Thing Music (Wave Books, 2014), I ♥ Your Fate (Wave Books, 2011), Moongarden (Wave Books, 2006) and Father of Noise (Fence Books, 2003). Read the way you want Adjust text size, font, layout, margins, background color, and more so you can read comfortably. He also co-edited Supplication: Selected Poems of John Wieners(Wave Books, 2015).Īnthony McCann was born and raised in the Hudson Valley. Customize your Kindle experience to fit your reading needs and preferences. He is editor-in-chief at Wave Books and has translated numerous works of poetry and prose, including Micrograms, by Jorge Carrera Andrade, 5 Meters of Poems (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2010) by Carlos Oquendo de Amat, and Poker (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2008) by Tomaž Šalamun, which was a finalist for the PEN America Poetry in Translation Award. and Adventures While Preaching the Gospel of Beauty. The Gentle Reader is interested not only in what great men actually were, but in the way they appeared to those who loved or hated them. He is the author of many books, including The Lives of the Poems and 3 Talks (Wave Books, forthcoming 2018), The Inside of an Apple, Take It, Shake, Your Time Has Come, and two collaborations with Matthew Rohrer: Nice Hat. Joshua Beckman was born in New Haven, Connecticut. Read an interview at the Kenyon Review with all three authors about Gentle Reader!.
You will find surreal images, and straightforward but astonishingly expressed statements, evidence that erasure can achieve what Wordsworth called "the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings". Gentle Reader! is a collaborative book of erasures of Romantic era texts by Joshua Beckman, Anthony McCann, and Matthew Rohrer.Ī book that perfectly encapsulates the contradictions and complexities surrounding the English Romantics is an erasure of their works: Gentle Reader!.If you think erasure is valuable as an exercise but lacks literary merit, then I strongly recommend this book. By Joshua Beckman, Anthony McCann, and Matthew Rohrer
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