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Between the Lines
. Ed(S): Parisi, Joseph; Young, Stephen
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Description for Between the Lines
Hardback. Here are the best of letters written to and from the editors of Poetry magazine (which T. S. Eliot called "an American institution") from 1962 through 2002, affording the reader a first-person account of the second revolution in American poetry. Virtually all of the more than five hundred letters have never been printed before. Editor(s): Parisi, Joseph; Young, Stephen. Num Pages: 480 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 159 x 31. Weight in Grams: 826.
In November 2002 the Chicago Tribune broke the astonishing story that Chicago-based Poetry magazine had received a bequest of more than $100 million from the amateur poet and pharmaceutical heiress Ruth Lilly, making it at once the richest as well as the most famous literary organization in the United States. What happened before and after this remarkable gift is now revealed in Between the Lines, edited by Poetry's longtime editor Joseph Parisi and its former senior editor Stephen Young. It is a concluding episode in the book that follows on the editors' Dear Editor (2002), which chronicled Poetry's first fifty ... Read more
In November 2002 the Chicago Tribune broke the astonishing story that Chicago-based Poetry magazine had received a bequest of more than $100 million from the amateur poet and pharmaceutical heiress Ruth Lilly, making it at once the richest as well as the most famous literary organization in the United States. What happened before and after this remarkable gift is now revealed in Between the Lines, edited by Poetry's longtime editor Joseph Parisi and its former senior editor Stephen Young. It is a concluding episode in the book that follows on the editors' Dear Editor (2002), which chronicled Poetry's first fifty ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Ivan R Dee, Inc United States
Number of pages
480
Condition
New
Number of Pages
480
Place of Publication
Chicago, United States
ISBN
9781566636568
SKU
V9781566636568
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About . Ed(S): Parisi, Joseph; Young, Stephen
Joseph Parisi was chief editor of Poetry for twenty years; Stephen Young, former senior editor of Poetry, is program director of the Poetry Foundation. They have also edited The Poetry Anthology and Dear Editor: A History of Poetry in Letters: The First Fifty Years, 1912-1962, and Mr. Parisi has edited 100 Essential Modern Poems. Both live in Chicago.
Reviews for Between the Lines
Reading Between the Lines is so much fun it feels wrong.
Kay Ryan, author of The Niagara River As exciting and tumultuous as the times in which the letters were written.
Amy K. Weiss
Library Journal
Fascinating reading.
California Bookwatch
Reading Between the Lines is a lot like dipping into your older sister's diary—you ... Read more
Kay Ryan, author of The Niagara River As exciting and tumultuous as the times in which the letters were written.
Amy K. Weiss
Library Journal
Fascinating reading.
California Bookwatch
Reading Between the Lines is a lot like dipping into your older sister's diary—you ... Read more