{"product_id":"after-the-fact-christopher-merrill-9781945680724","title":"After the Fact: If \u0026 When and Here \u0026 Now","description":"\u003cb\u003eA iterary testament to friendship and the ways in which a vibrant collaboration can inspire poets to plumb the depths of their experiences.\u003c\/b\u003eThe 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 \u003ci\u003eAfter the Fact\u003c\/i\u003e provided both of them for ten glorious years.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Christopher Merrill, Marvin Bell\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1945680725\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781945680724\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 05\/14\/2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 150\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.50lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.90h x 6.00w x 0.50d","brand":"Christopher Merrill","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46372820189439,"sku":"9781945680724","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_a5d34b7c-efcd-4df1-9f1d-f2af19257689.jpg?v=1732727055","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/after-the-fact-christopher-merrill-9781945680724","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}