Angel Hair Sleeps with a Boy in My Head: The Angel Hair Anthology - Softcover

Greenwald, Tom; Kyger, Joanne; Thomas, Lorenzo; Weiner, Hannah; Wieners, John; Warsh, Lewis; Creeley, Robert; Clark, Tom; Notley, Alice; Brainard, Joe; Coolidge, Clark; Elmslie, Kenward; Mayer, Bernadette; Clark, Emilie; Hejinian, Lyn

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1887123504 ISBN 13: 9781887123501

Publisher: Granary Books, 2001

Synopsis

Edited by Anne Waldman, Lewis Warsh, Contributors include Bill Berkson, Joe Brainard, Tom Clark, Clark Coolidge, Robert Creeley, Kenward Elmslie, Tom Greenwald, Joanne Kyger, Bernadette Mayer, Alice Notley, Ron Padgett, Amber Phillips, Lorenzo Thomas, Ann

About this title

About the Author:

The author of over thirty books and pamphlets of poetry, Anne Waldman received the Shelley Memorial Award in 1996. She has taught at the Schule fur Dichtung in Vienna an has led the Naropa University's study abroad program to Bali, Indonesia. She is co-founder of the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics at Naropa University.

From Publishers Weekly:

From 1966-1978, poets Anne Waldman and Lewis Warsh edited the magazine Angel Hair (six issues from 1966-69) and published more than 60 low-tech, high-quality books, chapbooks and literary salvos from their Lower East Side press of the same name. The two poets have returned to their youths to cull angel hair sleeps with a boy in my head: The Angel Hair Anthology, which collects work from press and magazine, representing such poets as John Ashbery, Ted Berrigan, Clark Coolidge, Barbara Guest, Joanne Kyger, Bernadette Mayer, Alice Notley, John Wieners and 62 others. The book is a beautifully produced snapshot of an extraordinary time and place in American poetry.

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About this edition

• Publisher: Granary Books
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 1887123504
• ISBN 13: 9781887123501
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 500
• Editor: Waldman Anne, Berkson Bill, Padgett Ron