The Traveler's Vade Mecum by Helen 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 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.
Helen Klein Ross’s poetry, essays and fiction have appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times , The Los Angeles Times and in The Iowa Review where it won the 2014 Iowa Review award in poetry. Her second novel, What Was Mine from Simon & Schuster/Gallery Books was star-reviewed and debuted on January 5, 2016. It sold out on Amazon before 8 AM and was chosen by People magazine as a "Best New Book of 2016." Helen graduated from Cornell University and received an MFA from The New School. She lives with her husband in New York City and Salisbury, Connecticut.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781597092241 |
| ISBN 10 | 159709224X |
| Title | The Traveler's Vade Mecum |
| Author | Helen Ross |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Red Hen Press |
| Year published | 2016-11-24 |
| Number of pages | 96 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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