Yours presently
Subtitle: the selected letters of John Wieners
By: edited by Michael Seth Stewart ; preface by Eileen Myles
Contributors: Stewart, Michael Seth, editor; Myles, Eileen, writer of preface
Series: Recencies Series: Research and Recovery in Twentieth-Century American Poetics; Recencies
Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
Published: 2020
Place of publication: Albuquerque
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780826362056
Copyright date: 2020
Subjects: Correspondence
Work titles: Correspondence
Description: The letters collected in this volume are greatly enhanced by Eileen Myles's preface and Stewart's thorough introduction, notes, and brief bios of the poets, writers, artists, and editors with whom Wieners corresponded.
Table of contents: title: Cover; title: Half title; title: Title; title: Copyright; title: Table of Contents; title: List of Illustrations; title: Preface by Eileen Myles; title: Introduction: "Until the dark hours are done"; title: A Note on the Text; title: Part 1. "a living that counted"; title: Chapter 1. Spring 1955-August 1956; title: Chapter 2. January 1957-August 1957; title: Chapter 3. September 1957-December 1957; title: Part 2. "Absent Verse Forms"; title: Chapter 4. January 1960-May 1963; title: Chapter 5. October 1963-July 1965; title: Chapter 6. August 1965-November 1969; title: Part 3. "What can I do but shine / in memory"; title: Chapter 7. January 1970-February 1971; title: Chapter 8. April 1972-January 1976; title: Chapter 9. July 1984-January 1997; title: Glossary of Names; title: Bibliography; title: Index