The Traveler's Vade Mecum

by Helen Klein Ross

The original Traveler's Vade Mecum, published in 1853, contained thousands of telegrams. Ross chose telegrams as titles for poems solicited from dozens of poets, including Bollingen Prize winner Frank Bidart and former US Poet Laureate Billy Collins to create a digital-age compendium of old-world poetics. Here are lyric poems, language poems, prose poems, found poems, haikus, pantoums, ekphrases, epistolary poems, acrostics, sonnets and mirror...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 159709224X
• ISBN13: 9781597092241
• Release Date: October 2016
• Publisher: Red Hen Press
• Length: 96 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.8" x 8.9"