After the Fact: If & When and Here & Now (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781945680724)

A iterary testament to friendship and the ways in which a vibrant collaboration can inspire poets to plumb the depths of their experiences.The concluding volumes of a ten-year-long conversation in prose poetry between the award-winning poets Marvin Bell and Christopher Merrill. They write from different generations and places around the world on a range of themes from memory to politics, aging and mortality, the vagaries of desire and the imagination.Bell and Merrill wanted to create a wide-ranging dialogue to explore the meaning not only of their separate experiences but of the very ways in which a collaboration fosters a deeper engagement with each other--and the world. In his penultimate message to Merrill, written just hours before he suffered a heart attack from which he never recovered, Bell said that what he loved about their collaboration was that each new prose poem defined his immediate future--which was what After the Fact provided both of them for ten glorious years.

Author: Christopher Merrill, Marvin Bell
ISBN-10: 1945680725
ISBN-13: 9781945680724
Publisher: White Pine Press (NY)
Language: English
Published: 05/14/2024
Pages: 150
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.50lbs
Size: 8.90h x 6.00w x 0.50d