Book
After the fact: if & when and here & now
White Pine Press
2023
Appears in Recent Books by UI Authors
Abstract
The concluding volumes of a ten-year-long conversation in prose poetry between the award-winning poets Marvin Bell and Christopher Merrill. They write from different generations and places around the world on a range of themes from memory to politics, aging and mortality, the vagaries of desire and the imagination.
Bell and Merrill wanted to create a wide-ranging dialogue to explore the meaning not only of their separate experiences but of the very ways in which a collaboration fosters a deeper engagement with each other—and the world. In his penultimate message to Merrill, written just hours before he suffered a heart attack from which he never recovered, Bell said that what he loved about their collaboration was that each new prose poem defined his immediate future—which was what After the Fact provided both of them for ten glorious years.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- After the fact: if & when and here & now
- Creators
- Christopher Merrill - University of Iowa, African Studies ProgramMarvin Bell - University of Iowa, English
- Resource Type
- Book
- ISBN
- 9781945680724
- Publisher
- White Pine Press; Buffalo, New York
- Number of pages
- 149 pages
- Date published
- 2023
- Academic Unit
- International Writing Program; International Programs; English; Writers’ Workshop
- Record Identifier
- 9984700059002771
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