{"product_id":"after-the-fact-christopher-merrill-9781935210887","title":"After the Fact: Scripts \u0026 Postscripts","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"Prose was always meant for colloquy, risk, and intimacy. With these rich and conversant prose poems, Marvin Bell and Christopher Merrill return spoken language to sport--sometimes competitive, but often cooperative, exploratory, even humanely probative. What is a friend? Bell and Merrill demonstrate friendship is drawn from imagination.\"--Stephen Kuusisto, author of \u003ci\u003eLetters to Borges \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"The best conversationalists intuit and respond to unspoken questions and interstitial meanings, sidelong concerns and secret subjects. They also know how to \u003ci\u003elisten \u003c\/i\u003eto another's story and hear the line or inflection that calls forth their own tale in a way that enlarges, well, \u003ci\u003e everything\u003c\/i\u003e. Marvin Bell and Christopher Merrill's stunning epistolary paragraphs illustrate the inner workings of just such an intimate, agile, and sustained conversation. This collaborative, high wire act offers up profound truths in exactly the way the most exciting poems take shape--by leaps of imagination and complete trust in the power of association to bring up riches, songs, and wisdom from the depths.\"--Lia Purpura\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eAfter the Fact\u003c\/i\u003e is a lively and imaginative conversation between two legendary poets. Marvin Bell, writing from Iowa City and Port Townsend, and Christopher Merrill, writing from around the world, give us an intimate look into collaboration at its best. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChristopher Merrill\u003c\/b\u003e's recent books include \u003ci\u003eBoat \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eNecessities\u003c\/i\u003e. He is the director of the International Writing Program at the University of Iowa.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eMarvin Bell\u003c\/b\u003e's works include collaborations with poet William Stafford and volumes of an original poetic form, most recently collected in \u003ci\u003eVertigo: The Living Dead Man Poems\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Christopher Merrill, Marvin Bell\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1935210882\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781935210887\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e White Pine Press (NY)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/13\/2016\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 108\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.40lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.90h x 5.90w x 0.30d","brand":"Christopher Merrill","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43983838249215,"sku":"9781935210887","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_986089e0-82b7-4349-ac18-683cb107a3f8.jpg?v=1683269014","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/after-the-fact-christopher-merrill-9781935210887","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}