{"product_id":"four-eyes-steve-benson-9781947951839","title":"Four Eyes","description":"\u003cb\u003eThe four performance works documented in this book were each built through advance planning and spontaneous decisions, in response to the opportunities and constraints I anticipated and experiences in the process of composition. Each depends on live improvisation to verbalize content, themes, and manner throughout the performance itself.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSteve Benson's public presentations have surprised and refreshed poetry audiences since his \u003ci\u003eBlindspots\u003c\/i\u003e in 1977. Here are his arrangements for the page of his own verbatim transcriptions of four improvisational public performances from 2005 to 2012. Each engages the conditions and parameters set by the particular situation where it took place, as well as constraints or challenges Steve imposed on himself. The words, issues, and manner of his speaking voice were all spontaneously improvised, not decided in advance. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eReading \u003ci\u003eFour Eyes\u003c\/i\u003e traces the intimate compositional play of each work as it finds rhythms and structures grow through its process, as well as what gets said. What happens in writing is manifest and thrown into question. Freedoms are negotiated through this experimental, experiential form of action.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Steve Benson\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1947951831\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781947951839\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e City Point Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/03\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 80\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.39lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.97h x 7.11w x 0.25d","brand":"Steve Benson","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47419584151807,"sku":"9781947951839","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_1805e3e7-40be-4583-b87d-4897ccf1f71e.jpg?v=1761512527","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/four-eyes-steve-benson-9781947951839","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}