{"product_id":"a-friend-sails-in-on-a-poem-essays-on-friendship-freedom-and-poetic-form-paperback","title":"A Friend Sails in on a Poem: Essays on Friendship, Freedom and Poetic Form - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eMolly Peacock\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePalimpsest Press and Molly Peacock are pleased to announce the forthcoming publication of \u003cem\u003eA FRIEND SAILS IN ON A POEM\u003c\/em\u003e, available for presale in Canada and the United States.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFor the last forty-six 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 traces the development of their ideas about poetry across their lifelong back-and-forth, quoting their poems, investigating their childhoods, personalities, writing habits, reading habits, and startling differences. She speculates about their challenges as they meet across seminar tables, kitchen tables, coffee, tea and restaurant tables from their twenties through their sixties and seventies. \u003cem\u003eA Friend Sails in on a Poem\u003c\/em\u003e offers a charming, psychologically wise, and metaphorically piquant look at navigating craft, creativity, and companionship. 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor the last forty-five years, the distinguished poets Molly Peacock and Phillis Levin have read and discussed nearly every poem they’sve 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. \u003cem\u003eA Friend Sails in on a Poem\u003c\/em\u003e 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. .\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMolly Peacock is a poet, biographer, and memoirist. Her latest poetry collections are \u003cem\u003eThe Analyst\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eCornucopia: New and Selected Poems\u003c\/em\u003e from Biblioasis and W.W. Norton and Company. She is the founder of \u003cem\u003eThe Best Canadian Poetry\u003c\/em\u003e series and the co-founder of \u003cem\u003ePoetry in Motion\u003c\/em\u003e on New York's subways and buses. Peacocks's poems have appeared in leading literary journals such as \u003cem\u003ePoetry\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003e The New Yorker\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe Malahat Review\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe Women's Review of Books\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003ePlume\u003c\/em\u003e and are anthologized in \u003cem\u003eThe Oxford Book of American Poetry\u003cem\u003e. She has also written two books about creativity in the lives of women artists: \u003c\/em\u003eThe Paper Garden\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eFlower Diary\u003c\/em\u003e. Peacock lives in Toronto and teaches online for the Unterberg Poetry Center at the 92\u003csup\u003end\u003c\/sup\u003e St Y.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 250\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 01, 2022\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51765899788576,"sku":"9781990293306","price":18.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/ca5b029f2739488f21784ffdddd0f42c.webp?v=1780282477","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/a-friend-sails-in-on-a-poem-essays-on-friendship-freedom-and-poetic-form-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}