A Friend Sails in on a Poem
- Publisher
- Palimpsest Press
- Initial publish date
- Oct 2022
- Category
- Essays, Canadian
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eBook
- ISBN
- 9781990293313
- Publish Date
- Oct 2022
- List Price
- $9.99
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Description
For the last forty-five years, the distinguished poets Molly Peacock and Phillis Levin have read and discussed nearly every poem they’ve written—an unparalleled friendship in poetry. Here Peacock collects her most important essays on poetic form and traces the development of her formalist aesthetic across their lifelong back-and-forth. A Friend Sails in on a Poem offers a charming, psychologically wise, and metaphorically piquant look at navigating craft and creativity. This is a book both for serious poets as well as for anyone who wants a deep dive into the impact of friendship on art itself.
About the author
Molly Peacock is the author of six volumes of poetry, including The Second Blush (McClelland & Stewart, 2009) and Cornucopia: New & Selected Poems (W.W. Norton); a memoir, Paradise, Piece by Piece; and a one-woman show in poems, “The Shimmering Verge” produced by Louise Fagan Productions (London, Ontario). She has been series editor of The Best Canadian Poetry in English since 2007, as well as a contributing editor of the Literary Review of Canada and a faculty mentor at the Spalding MFA Program. Her poetry, published in leading literary journals in North America and the UK, is widely anthologized. Her latest work of nonfiction is The Paper Garden: Mrs. Delany Begins Her Life's Work at 72 (McClelland & Stewart, 2010).
Editorial Reviews
Molly Peacock's candor, wit, generosity, and unerring insights (about friendship, poetry, and much else) make "A Friend Sails in on a Poem" more than the memoir of a remarkable friendship. This book performs many tasks with panache. As Peacock gracefully alternates narrative with lyrical interludes and salient poems, the unfolding that results allows space for continual surprise. "A Friend Sails in on a Poem" turns out to be a poignant, inspiring, and rhapsodic guide to living.
Rachel Hadas, author of Love and Dread and Piece by Piece
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