Bøger af Ken Waldman

"Full of poems that stand alone as consummate accomplishments, Conditions and Cures nevertheless coheres as a book about life-and-death verities, strategies for survival or triumph or at least coping gracefully. The comic is one of those strategies, and Ken Waldman is often at his most hilarious when he's addressing subjects another poet might murder with solemnity. In addition, he frequently engages with demanding forms like pantoums, villanelles, sestinas and sonnets, submitting to their guidance but never losing his independence. The secret of such a trick is his ear: a professional musician, Waldman swears final allegiance to the body of our language, its sonorities and rhythms, to its possibilities as song-a co-strategy with the comic." -Philip Dacey

The Writing Party, Ken Waldman's fourteenth book, is part writing manual (chapters begin with a writing prompt), part memoir (Ken's life as writer and teacher), part poetry collection (poems about writers and writing). It was written in response to long-time requests by attendees of Ken's popular creative writing workshops.