ABC's
Published on 15. November 2021
Book
Paperback/Softback
114 pages
978-1-956005-34-9 (ISBN)
Description
In the age-old tradition of alphabet poems, from Psalm 119, to St. Augustine, to Chaucer, to Edward Lear and the present, Neeli Cherkovski's ABC'S expand the poet's singing voice, discovering remarkable musicality in the verse's every turn. Throughout the sequence, Cherkovski delivers intoxicating melodies, forms of silence often dizzying in their new familiarity.
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Language
English
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 7 mm
Weight
198 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-956005-34-9 (9781956005349)
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Neeli Cherkovski grew up in Los Angeles where he edited The Anthology of Los Angeles Poets with Charles Bukowski and Paul Vangelisti. He moved to San Francisco in 1974 where he was associated with Jack Hirschman, David Meltzer, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Gregory Corso, and a whole tribe of poets. His essay collection Whitman's Wild Children, originally published in 1989, with expanded subsequent reissues, provides intimate portraits of many of these contemporaries. In 2019 he co-edited The Collected Poems of Bob Kaufman, another close friend. Cherkovski's poems have been translated into Italian, German, Spanish, Turkish, and French. His most recent poetry collections are Elegy for my Beat Generation and Hang onto the Yangtze River (Lithic Press, Fruita Colorado) His Round Your Tongue: New and Selected Poems, 1959-2021, is also forthcoming from Lithic Press.