Cross Worlds

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Transcultural Poetics: An Anthology

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Cross Worlds explores cultural hybrids and trans-cultural alliances through essays, conversations, and socratic raps, highlighting the vital work poets do when writing across borders. Edited by Anne Waldman and Laura Wright, the book gathers a diverse array of voices and discussions that illuminate the transcultural poetics emerging from the Kerouac School's dynamic community.
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This book is ideal for readers interested in poetry, cultural studies, and transcultural dialogue, especially those who appreciate experimental and diverse poetic voices.

Cross Worlds engages cultural hybrids, trans-cultural alliances and associations, and the vital practice of poets working across borders.

Early access copies in March Endorsements (potential): Ammiel Alcalay, Douglas Brinkley Promotion: ALA Annual, BookExpo America, AWP, Twin Cities Book Festival, Dodge Poetry Festival Targeted pitches to BOMB, Guernica, Poets & Writers Promotion timed to coincide with the 2014 Summer Writing Program at Naropa University Promotion on Coffee House Press e-newsletter, website, and social media channels Promotion via electronic postcard to Waldman and Wright's contact list Book trailer (possibility) Advertising: National Poetry Month, The Poetry Project Newsletter

Description

Cross Worlds refers to cultural hybrids, trans-cultural alliances, and associations. This fascinating compendium documents—through essays, conversations, and Socratic raps—the vital work poets perform when they write across borders.

Anne Waldman is the author of more than forty collections of poetry, the editor of numerous anthologies, and, for The Iovis Trilogy, the winner of the Shelley Memorial Award and the USA PEN Center Award for Poetry. She is a chancellor of the Academy of American Poets.

Laura Wright is a poet, translator, and librarian. With Anne Waldman, she co-edited Beats at Naropa (Coffee House Press, 2009).

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Praised for its rich and eclectic collection, Cross Worlds has been described as a "marvel-filled gleaning" that gathers a host of high-voltage talks, panels, and interviews, delivering brilliance that "out burns anything this side of the sun." The volume spans languages, geographies, and political realities, offering archival attention that resonates deeply with contemporary poetic thought.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781566893589

Publisher: Coffee House Press

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 31 July 2014

Country: United States

Imprint: Coffee House Press

Illustration: Illustrations

Contributors:

Edited by Laura Wright
Edited by Anne Waldman

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 152.0mm

Height: 228.0mm

Weight: 481g

Pages: 366

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Arts & Culture Non-Fiction

About the Author

Anne Waldman, poet, professor, cultural activist, and co-founder, with Allen Ginsberg, of one of the most vital writing programs in the world-the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics-is the author of more than 40 collections of her own poetry and the editor of numerous anthologies including Nice to See You (Homage to Ted Berrigan), The Beat Book, and Civil Disobediences: Poetics and Politics in Action. She is the winner of the Shelley Memorial Award and the USA PEN Center Award for Poetry 2012 for her monumental feminist epic The Iovis Trilogy: Colors in the Mechanism of Concealment. She received a Guggenheim Fellowship 2013-14 and is a Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets.

Laura E. Wright is a poet, translator, and librarian; she has also worked as a classical musician and a volunteer firefighter/EMT. She has published various chapbooks and one full-length collection of poems, Part of the Design (Meeting Eyes Bindery, 2005). With Anne Waldman, she co-edited Beats at Naropa (Coffee House Press, 2009), a collection of talks given at Naropa University. Her translation (with Anselm Hollo) of Henri Michaux's La vie dans les plis (Life in the Folds) is in search of a home. From 1999-2006 she curated/co-curated (with Mark DuCharme and then Daron Mueller) the Left Hand Reading Series in Boulder. She was a co-editor, from 2001-2005, of Potato Clock Editions, the publishing arm of the School of Continuation. She also manages LitCal, a listserve/group that was started in 2000 by Kass Fleisher announcing literary events in the Front Range area.