Yours Presently: The Selected Letters of John Wieners

Book Overview

Boston born and bred, John Wieners was a queer self-styled po te maudit who was renowned among his contemporaries but ignored by mainstream critics. Twenty-first-century readers are correcting this elision, placing Wieners back alongside his better-known peers, including Allen Ginsberg, Charles Olson, Denise Levertov, and Amiri Baraka. Wieners was a voluble letter writer, maintaining friendships with these contemporaries that spanned decades and...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 082636635X
• ISBN13: 9780826366351
• Release Date: June 2024
• Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
• Length: 360 Pages