The Strangest of Theatres - HAWKLEY,J

The Strangest of Theatres explores how poets who are willing to venture beyond our borders can serve as envoys to the wider world and revitalize American poetry in the process. What are they looking for when they leave? What do they find? How does their experience shape them and what is revealed when they sit down at their desks and take up the pen?Original and reprinted essays by contemporary poets who have spent time abroad address questions of estrangement identity and home. These reflections represent a diverse atlas of experience from authors such as Kazim Ali Elizabeth Bishop Naomi Shihab Nye Nick Flynn Yusef Komunyakaa Claudia Rankine Alissa Valles and many others.Following these literary reflections is a roundtable conversation among fourteen poets as well as a section that provides practical re-sources for finding work abroad applying for fellowships and residencies funding a trip obtaining proper travel documents and attending to other cultural considerations. This inspiring useful book addresses concerns relevant to any American writer preparing to go abroad already traveling just returning or simply dreaming of the faraway.

TITLE: The Strangest of Theatres

AUTHOR: HAWKLEY,J

SKU: 9781938073274

PUBLISHER: McSweeney's Publishing

DATE PUBLISHED: 24/01/2013

PLACE PUBLISHED: United States

PAGES: 464

BINDING: Paperback / softback

LANGUAGE: English

DIMENSIONS: 153 mm x 229 mm

WEIGHT: 624 gr