The A Poems - Softcover

Bernard McCabe And Wayne Allen Jones

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0972255311 ISBN 13: 9780972255318

Publisher: Fractal Edge Press, 2003

Synopsis

McCabe and Jones met at Harvard and shared a common love of literature and a warrior spirit at odds with rarified air of literary criticism. This book is a rare collaboration - McCabe wrote the first drafts of poems about women in his life (friends, lovers, acquaintances, daughter, wife). Jones took the strong stories and high emotions and tightened the language, expanded on themes, and shunted the energy of McCabe's vision through phrases and images that blaze with that light. They say no woman who has read the poems has hunted them down and attacked them for their hubris at representing the interior lives of these characters - they more often hear, "How did you know?"

About this title

About the Author:

Bernard McCabe grew up on the Southside of Chicago, was an All-State quarterback, and joined the U of I team with Dick Butkis and the others of the 1964 Rose Bowl Champions. Jones wandered through the academic labyrinths of Harvard, U of Michigan, U of I/Chicago, and U of Miami before ending up in the computer industry. In 1981, this pair collaborated on a play about Chicago steelworkers, and after a fifteen year gap, they got back in touch and started the poetic exchange resulting in The A Poems.

About this edition

• Publisher: Fractal Edge Press
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0972255311
• ISBN 13: 9780972255318
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 64