In Steve Kowit: This Unspeakably Marvelous Life, four editors and numerous poets and essayists pool their understanding of and admiration for a brilliant poet/ essayist/ teacher/ animal rights advocate/ political activist and all-around troublemaker who died April 2, 2015. The contributors to this collection have created an anthology that is also something of a biography, encomium, accolade, homage, love-song for a master who deeply touched their lives and, in many cases, changed their art-always for the better, they say again and again in their acknowledgments. Dear Reader, you hold a...
In Steve Kowit: This Unspeakably Marvelous Life, four editors and numerous poets and essayists pool their understanding of and admiration for a brilli...
From the book's Introduction, by Clare MacQueen: If you adore a good story-one that's well written and well told, one that entertains and inspires, the kind that dazzles and makes you weep and laugh out loud at the same time-then you're in for a treat with New Shoes. This wondrous collection by poet and master story-teller Dan Gilmore offers 53 noteworthy stories to savor: specifically, haibun stories, a hybrid form of flash writing which blends prose poems with haiku or senryu. "Like a Zen slap on the reader's back," Gilmore says, the haiku "enriches, deepens, and expands" the prose. The...
From the book's Introduction, by Clare MacQueen: If you adore a good story-one that's well written and well told, one that entertains and inspires, th...
