{"product_id":"saints-of-hysteria-a-half-century-of-collaborative-american-poetry-9781933368184","title":"Saints of Hysteria: A Half-Century of Collaborative American Poetry","description":"Collaborative poetry -- poems written by one or more people -- grew out of word games played by French surrealists in the 1920s. It was taken up a decade later by Japan's Vou Club and then by Charles Henri Ford, who created the chainpoem, composed by poets who mailed their lines all over the world. After WW II, the Beat writers' collaborative experiments resulted in the famous \u003ci\u003ePull My Daisy.\u003c\/i\u003e The concept was embraced in the 1970s by feminist poets as a way to find a collective female voice. Yet, for all its rich history, virtually no collections of collaborative poetry exist. This exhilarating anthology remedies the omission. Featured are poems by two, four, even as many as 18 people in a dizzying array of forms: villanelles to ghazals, sonnets to somonkas, pantoums to haiku, even quizzes, questionnaires, and other nonliterary forms. Collaborators' notes accompany many of the poems, giving a fascinating glimpse into the creative process.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eDavid Trinidad\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of more than a dozen books, including \u003ci\u003ePeyton Place: A Haiku Soap Opera\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eDear Prudence: New and Selected Poems\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Late Show\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003ePlasticville\u003c\/i\u003e, a finalist for the Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize. He has received awards from The Fund for Poetry and the New York Foundation for the Arts, and his work has appeared in numerous periodicals and several anthologies, including \u003ci\u003eBest American Poetry\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Outlaw Bible of American Poetry\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003ePostmodern American Poetry: A Norton Anthology\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eDenise Duhamel\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of numerous collections of poetry, including: \u003ci\u003eBlowout\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eKa-Ching!\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eQueen for a Day: Selected and New Poems\u003c\/i\u003e. Duhamel has received grants and awards from numerous organizations, including a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, and she served as the guest editor of \u003ci\u003eThe Best American Poetry 2013\u003c\/i\u003e. She teaches creative writing and literature at Florida International University and lives in Hollywood, Florida. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eMaureen Seaton\u003c\/b\u003e has authored fourteen poetry collections, both solo and collaborative--most recently, \u003ci\u003eStealth\u003c\/i\u003e, with Sam Ace; \u003ci\u003eSinéad O'Connor and Her Coat of a Thousand Bluebirds\u003c\/i\u003e, with Neil de la Flor; and \u003ci\u003eCave of the Yellow Volkswagen\u003c\/i\u003e--and a memoir, \u003ci\u003eSex Talks to Girls\u003c\/i\u003e, winner of the Lambda Literary Award.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Catapult","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50364173943058,"sku":"9781933368184","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_f1108c54-c672-4548-9abb-27000ac09dfb.jpg?v=1728427926","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/saints-of-hysteria-a-half-century-of-collaborative-american-poetry-9781933368184","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}