{"product_id":"the-travelers-vade-mecum-paperback","title":"The Traveler's Vade Mecum - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eHelen Klein Ross\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe original \u003ci\u003eTraveler's Vade Mecum\u003c\/i\u003e, 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 sonnets. Demonstrating the range of what poetry can do, this book provides a fascinating glimpse into the habits and social aspects of 19th century America--and shows how we have evolved 163 years later.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eHelen Klein Ross is a poet and novelist whose work has appeared in \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Los Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e The New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e Salmagundi\u003c\/i\u003e, and in \u003ci\u003eThe Iowa Review\u003c\/i\u003e, where it won the 2014 Iowa Review award in poetry. Her writing has been anthologized in \u003ci\u003eBest of the Bellevue Literary Review \u003c\/i\u003e(2008), \u003ci\u003eBest of Gigantic \u003c\/i\u003e(2015), and in \u003ci\u003eSHORT: Five Centuries of Short-Short Stories, Prose Poems, Brief Essays, and Other Short Prose Forms\u003c\/i\u003e (Persea Books, 2013). Her admiration for those editors has increased during the creation of this anthology. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Helen is the author of two novels and 16,400 tweets. Her most recent book is \u003ci\u003eWhat Was Mine\u003c\/i\u003e (Simon \u0026amp; Schuster \/ Gallery, 2016). \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e She graduated from Cornell University and received an MFA from The New School. She lives with her husband in Manhattan and Salisbury, CT. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 96\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.4 x 8.9 x 5.8 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 10, 2016\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51749635260704,"sku":"9781597092241","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/168104898ffe65189aa5bd759007ef51.webp?v=1779935428","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/the-travelers-vade-mecum-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}