{"product_id":"supplication-selected-poems-of-john-wieners-9781940696195","title":"Supplication: Selected Poems of John Wieners","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"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\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"A graceful rigor seems to be Wieners' natural mode; we feel the force of deliberation in his most free forms--he 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\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"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\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eSupplication: Selected Poems of John Wieners \u003c\/i\u003egathers 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 \u003ci\u003eThe Hotel Wentley Poems\u003c\/i\u003e, plus poems from rare sources, facsimiles, notes, and collages by Wieners. An invaluable collection for new and old fans.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJohn Wieners \u003c\/b\u003e(1934-2002) 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 \u003ci\u003eMeasure \u003c\/i\u003e(1957-1962) 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eJohn Wieners\u003c\/b\u003e (1934-2002) 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 (1957-1962) 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 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eJoshua Beckman\u003c\/b\u003e was born in New Haven, Connecticut. He is the author of six books, including \u003ci\u003eThe Inside of an Apple, \u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eTake It\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eShake\u003c\/i\u003e and two collaborations with Matthew Rohrer: \u003ci\u003eNice Hat. Thanks.\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eAdventures While Preaching the Gospel of Beauty\u003c\/i\u003e. He is an editor at Wave Books and has translated numerous works of poetry and prose, including \u003ci\u003ePoker\u003c\/i\u003e by Tomaz Salamun, which was a finalist for the PEN America Poetry in Translation Award, and \u003ci\u003eFive Meters of Poems\u003c\/i\u003e by Carlos Oquendo de Amat. He is also the recipient of numerous other awards, including a NYFA fellowship and a Pushcart Prize. He lives in Seattle and New York. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eCAConrad\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of \u003ci\u003eECODEVIANCE: (Soma)tics for the Future Wilderness\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eA Beautiful Marsupial Afternoon\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe Book of Frank\u003c\/i\u003e, as well as several other books of poetry and essays. A 2014 Lannan Fellow, a 2013 MacDowell Fellow, and a 2011 Pew Fellow, he also conducts workshops on (Soma)tic poetry and Ecopoetics. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eRobert Dewhurst\u003c\/b\u003e, a poet and scholar, holds a doctorate from the Poetics Program at the University at Buffalo. He has edited numerous small-press publications, most recently serving as the poetry editor of Semiotext(e)'s \u003ci\u003eAnimal Shelter\u003c\/i\u003e. He lives in LA, where he is preparing a forthcoming biography and edition of collected poems of John Wieners.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Wave Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50365846159634,"sku":"9781940696195","price":15.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_05905f72-7248-4b17-a5d3-ec496719fffc.jpg?v=1728464872","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/supplication-selected-poems-of-john-wieners-9781940696195","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}