Yours Presently: The Selected Letters of John Wieners Contributor(s): Stewart, Michael Seth (Editor), Myles, Eileen (Preface by) |
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ISBN: 0826362044 ISBN-13: 9780826362049 Publisher: University of New Mexico Press OUR PRICE: $74.25 Product Type: Hardcover Published: December 2020 |
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BISAC Categories: - Literary Collections | Letters |
Physical Information: 0.94" H x 6.14" W x 9.21" (1.61 lbs) 360 pages |
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Publisher Description: Boston born and bred, John Wieners was a queer self-styled po te maudit who was renowned among his contemporaries but ignored by mainstream critics. Twenty-first-century readers are correcting this elision, placing Wieners back alongside his better-known peers, including Allen Ginsberg, Charles Olson, Denise Levertov, and Amiri Baraka. Wieners was a voluble letter writer, maintaining friendships with these contemporaries that spanned decades and tackling a range of complex issues that resonate today, including drug use, homosexuality, subcultures of the East and West Coasts, and the differing treatment of mental patients based on their economic class. 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. The result is more than the letters of a poet--it is a history that explores the world at large in the mid-twentieth century. |