Outside the Lines: Talking with Contemporary Gay Poets
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| Rating | : | 4.29 (871 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0472068733 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 232 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-01-17 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
. He is associate editor at the Gay and Lesbian Review - Worldwide. Christopher Hennessy is a freelance writer living in Boston who publishes frequently in national and international gay literary publications
"What an interesting book" according to John Michael Albert. What an interesting book. An interviewer who has done his homework, who stays away from the 'obvious' interview questions, and who gives the poet as much control of the direction of the interview as he wants (both in person, over the phone, and by E-mail, incidentally). The resulting book engages the reader in the poets' personalities and the resultant poetry. One thing that s
McClatchy. D. The answers given to Hennessy's astute, perfectly tailored questions remind a reader how exciting poetry can be, and how writers create, through language, the world as we have never known it. Each interview explores the poet's complete work to date, often illuminating the poet's technical evolution and emotional growth, probing shifts in theme, and even investigating links between verse and sexuality.In addition to a selected bibliography of works by established poets, the book also includes a list of works by newer and emerging poets who are well on their way to becoming important voices of the new millennium.. These adventuresome interviews will stir anyone who cares about the making of art."---Bernard Cooper, author of Maps to AnywhereEditor Christopher Hennessy gathers interviews with some of the most significant figures in
(AIDS comes up in nearly every conversation recorded here.) As an interlocutor, Hennessy is something like Inside the Actors Studio host James Lipton: deeply informed, with an ability to register the hotter material without comment. . From Publishers Weekly Michigan is known for its Poets on Poetry series, which collects the prose statements, interviews and poetry-related ephemera of individual contemporary poets; this anthology of frank interviews fits nicely alongside it. Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. Hennessy, an editor at Gay and Lesbian Review Wor