![]() And I am all right with the dog-stealers. The books which I write seem to appeal to a rather specialized public. Wells.Īs far as I, personally, am concerned, if I am to submit to this test, I should describe myself as a sort of fair-to-medium,-not, on the one hand, a definite warn and yet not, on the other, a total bust. "I asked you first," says Galsworthy, and they part on bad terms.Īnd, over in a corner, Arnold Bennett rising and walking away in a marked manner from H. "Look here," says Galsworthy abruptly, "How many fan-letters did you get last week?" Both my secretaries collapsed this morning and are in the hospital with ice-packs on their heads. If I could help you, I would do it like a shot. Mine has just got typist's cramp, answering letters from admirers of my books, and more pouring in by every post." "You don't happen to know of a good secretary, do you, Rud?" he says. You will see Galsworthy stroll up to Kipling in the club and yawn with an ill-assumed carelessness. There is no point on which your modern author is more touchy than this business of testimonials from the public. You're doing fine!" But, looking at the thing in a broad way, they were simply working in the dark, and it must have been discouraging for them. Pliny, of course, had a few old school friends who thought he was a wonder-or, at any rate, told him so when they had made quite sure that he was going to pay for the last round of Falernian wine: and sometimes a kindly Senator would pat Cicero on the shoulder in the Campus Martius and say "Stick at it, boy. For, as everybody knows, an author's success can be estimated by the number of letters he receives from readers. ![]() They could never tell for certain when they had pushed their stuff across and made a solid hit with the great public. He lives in Brooklyn, New York, and teaches at NYU.I have often felt a little sorry for writers like Cicero or Diogenes Laertius or, for the matter of that Pliny the Elder, who operated in the days before the post-office came into existence. His first book, A Hummock in the Malookas was selected for the National Poetry Series by Mary Oliver in 1994. He has appeared on NPR’s All Things Considered and The Next Big Thing. (Verse Press, 2002), and the audio CD Adventures While Preaching the Gospel of Beauty. He is also the author of Satellite (Verse Press, 2001), and co-author, with Joshua Beckman, of Nice Hat. Matthew Rohrer is the author of Surrounded by Friends (Wave Books, 2015), Destroyer and Preserver (Wave Books, 2011), A Plate of Chicken (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2009), Rise Up (Wave Books, 2007) and A Green Light (Verse Press, 2004), which was shortlisted for the 2005 Griffin Poetry Prize. He is the “Poet Laureate” of Machine Project and also teaches courses at the California Institute of the Arts. He lives in Los Angeles and teaches in the University of California-Riverside's Palm Desert MFA program. ![]() In addition to these three collections, he is one of the authors of Gentle Reader! (2007), a book of erasures of the English Romantics, along with Joshua Beckman and Matthew Rohrer. He is the author of Thing Music (Wave Books, 2014), I ♥ Your Fate (Wave Books, 2011), Moongarden (Wave Books, 2006) and Father of Noise (Fence Books, 2003). He also co-edited Supplication: Selected Poems of John Wieners(Wave Books, 2015).Īnthony McCann was born and raised in the Hudson Valley. He is editor-in-chief at Wave Books and has translated numerous works of poetry and prose, including Micrograms, by Jorge Carrera Andrade, 5 Meters of Poems (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2010) by Carlos Oquendo de Amat, and Poker (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2008) by Tomaž Šalamun, which was a finalist for the PEN America Poetry in Translation Award. and Adventures While Preaching the Gospel of Beauty. He is the author of many books, including The Lives of the Poems and 3 Talks (Wave Books, forthcoming 2018), The Inside of an Apple, Take It, Shake, Your Time Has Come, and two collaborations with Matthew Rohrer: Nice Hat. Joshua Beckman was born in New Haven, Connecticut. Read an interview at the Kenyon Review with all three authors about Gentle Reader!. You will find surreal images, and straightforward but astonishingly expressed statements, evidence that erasure can achieve what Wordsworth called "the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings". Gentle Reader! is a collaborative book of erasures of Romantic era texts by Joshua Beckman, Anthony McCann, and Matthew Rohrer.Ī book that perfectly encapsulates the contradictions and complexities surrounding the English Romantics is an erasure of their works: Gentle Reader!.If you think erasure is valuable as an exercise but lacks literary merit, then I strongly recommend this book. By Joshua Beckman, Anthony McCann, and Matthew Rohrer
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