San Francisco poet Benjamin Hollander explores, through a negotiation with poets of the past and present such as Paul Celan, Edmond Jabes, and Anne-Marie Albiach, how to "project memory on stage." Recognizing poetry as a theatrical field, a performance so to speak, The Book of Who Are Was contemplates the process of poetic creation in which it is actually the reader's or spectator's memory that is projected upon the stage or text. Opening his book with an imaginary dialogue with Celan, Hollander develops a poetics of translation in which letters and words appear or disappear while remembering and "crossing over" each other. The result is a startlingly original poetry, a series of mysterious, transformative encounters among figures, occasions, and voices of the past, of the poet, of the reader - creating and re-creating the conversation of a book in which poetry becomes "a gift," "...a thing to refuse you. Repeatedly given. At a moment's notice. Yes, clarity in the sense of silence."

The Book of Who Are Was (New American Poetry)

Literature & Fiction

Hollander, Benjamin

Poetry

Sun & Moon Press

Book by Ames, Elizabeth, Auslander, Bonnie, Cox, Sarah Anne, Hofer Jen, Fraser, Kathleen, Conoley ,Gillian, Caton, Robin, Going, Dale, Campo, Rafael, MacLow, Jackson, Kim, Byron, Kelly, Robert, Irby, Kenneth, Vita, Tricia, Hurston, Zora Neale, Hollander, Benjamin, Taruho, Inagaki, Miller, David, Murphy, Michelle, Murray, Aife, Newman, Denise, Owen, Maureen, Quartermain, Meredith, Marlis, Stefanie, West, Alice, Mozur, Nancy, Lew, Walter, Robles, Jaime, Ewing, Renata, Norton, Linda, Roether, Barbara

Beginnings, Birth/Rebirth, and the New World (Five Fingers Review 17)

HUrston, Zora Neale

Campo, Rafael

Irby, Kenneth

Ames, Elizabeth

FRASER, Kathleen

Miller,David

Owen, Maureen

Murphy, Michelle

Kelly, Robert

Hofer, Jen

Newman, Denise

Norton, Linda

Robles, Jaime

Lew, Walter

Marlis, Stefanie

Auslander, Bonnie

Cox, Sarah Anne

Caton, Robin

GOING, Dale

MacLow, Jackson

Kim, Byron

Vita, Tricia

Taruho, Inagaki

Murray, Aife

Quartermain, Meredith

West, Alice

Mozur, Nancy

Ewing, Renata

Roether, Barbara

Conoley, Gillian

Five Fingers Pr

Letters addressed to Charles Olson, author of The Maximus Poems

Letters For Olson

Biographies & Memoirs

Spuyten Duyvil Publishing

Vigilance

Genre Fiction

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