{"product_id":"whiteboardings-howard-f-stein-9798888381502","title":"Whiteboardings: Creating Collaborative Poetry in a Third Space","description":"\u003cp\u003eI had the pleasure of reading WHITEBOARDINGS, co-authored poetry by Howard F. Stein and Seth Allcorn, over the course of two days, in small bites, letting the poems digest as I entered into a third space between the writers and the words. The last line still rings: \"what is real?\" What seems real to me now, as the book still settles, is the depth of this third space, what [Donald] Winnicott once called \"potential space\"- which, unlike anything I've encountered, resounds with both wonder and longing in Stein and Allcorn's co-authored poems. Indeed, what seems little acknowledged, perhaps unconsciously avoided even, in the mountains of clinical writing on potential space, is just how creative a process of mourning can become when shared, through the free association of words, on a socalled \"whiteboard.\" A process where the tragic can be at once refused, revisited, reimagined, and ultimately worked with, instead of merely \"worked through.\" I'm also with a palpable feeling - like something \"gone awry\" after a summer's day of tubing down a river (see opening poem, \"River of Snow\"). The authors' words become my own as I ponder whether I can know the river's mysteries. Does it, can it, \"flow upward\" - an \"upward spiral\" away from all the \"slaughter on the ground' - or is it all an \"endless falling without a bottom\"? I'm not sure of an answer - nor sure I want one - but I do recognize that the \"casket was open\" as I read (see \"Life of Files\"), and I saw what the authors saw there, unflinchingly, and I creatively mourned. But I also touched a strange and perhaps timeless beauty, if only for a brief moment, before the casket was closed and the corpse buried, burned, turned to ash. I had borne witness to the culmination of a sustained potential space, forged from a 30-year friendship between the two authors, that offered not just memories but promises back to us, its readers, in an enduring presence: a true gift. -Nathan Gerard, Ph.D. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Howard F. Stein, Seth Allcorn\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 8888381503\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798888381502\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Finishing Line Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/10\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 74\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.27lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.18d","brand":"Howard F. Stein","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44583954645247,"sku":"9798888381502","price":20.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_efec8301-b600-4cd5-ad32-7e1044a039dc.jpg?v=1701884461","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/whiteboardings-howard-f-stein-9798888381502","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}