Between the Lines: A History of Poetry in Letters, 1962-2002 - Hardcover
Book by Joseph Parisi, Stephen Young
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Joseph Parisi was chief editor of Poetry for twenty years; Stephen Young, former senior editor of Poetry, is program director of the Poetry Foundation. They have also edited The Poetry Anthology and Dear Editor: A History of Poetry in Letters: The First Fifty Years, 1912-1962, and Mr. Parisi has edited 100 Essential Modern Poems. Both live in Chicago.
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Dear Editor (2002) was the first in a lively two-part epistolary history of Poetry, the pioneering literary magazine that has published every significant poet from Edna St. Vincent Millay to A. R. Ammons, Mary Oliver, Billy Collins, and beyond. In the second volume, Joseph Parisi, Poetry editor from 1983 to 2003, reflects on the fact that whenever the magazine was endangered (all too often), good fortune interceded. But nothing compares with the astounding munificence of philanthropist and amateur poet Ruth Lilly, who transformed Poetry in 2002 with a bequest of more than $100 million. Parisi is keen and caustic in his eye-opening account of the frenzy that followed, just as he is incisive and peppery in his commentary accompanying the 500-plus letters from the past 40 years that he and coeditor Stephen Young judiciously selected from the magazine's invaluable archive. Poetry lovers will be thrilled with the many distinctive and distinguished poets and equally interesting editors represented here in letters candid, shrewd, funny, and venomous. Matched by Parisi's sage interpretations of such complex subjects as the effect on poetry of the Vietnam War and the great migration of poets to the academy, Between the Lines is a uniquely intimate overview of the flourishing of contemporary American poetry. Donna Seaman
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- Publication date2006
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: new. Hardcover. In November 2002 the Chicago Tribune broke the astonishing story that Chicago-based Poetry magazine had received a bequest of more than $100 million from the amateur poet and pharmaceutical heiress Ruth Lilly, making it at once the richest as well as the most famous literary organization in the United States. What happened before and after this remarkable gift is now revealed in Between the Lines, edited by Poetry's longtime editor Joseph Parisi and its former senior editor Stephen Young. It is a concluding episode in the book that follows on the editors' Dear Editor (2002), which chronicled Poetry's first fifty years through its poignant, hilarious, and brutally frank correspondence with its contributing poets. Dear Editor told the story of Poetry's central role in the Modernist movement and its rise to a position as the acknowledged "magazine of verse." Between the Lines carries the narrative through the second revolution in American poetry, set against the backdrop of the restive early sixties, the tumultuous era of the Vietnam War, and the social upheavals of the last four decades. Virtually all of the close to five hundred letters in the book have never been printed before. In them, famous and aspiring authors tell Poetry's editors of their artistic aspirations, rivalries, problems and successes, unvarnished opinions, and reactions to events of the day, unfolding the improbable tale of how perennially impoverished Poetry survived to make literaryand financialhistory. The book is abundantly illustrated with candid photographs, drawings, posters, programs, and clippings from newspapers and magazines. Here are the best of letters written to and from the editors of Poetry magazine (which T. S. Eliot called "an American institution") from 1962 through 2002, affording the reader a first-person account of the second revolution in American poetry. Virtually all of the more than five hundred letters have never been printed before. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability. Seller Inventory # 9781566636568
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