A Community Writing Itself: Conversations with Vanguard Writers of the Bay Area Format:Paperback Formerly a journalist

Formerly a journalist

A time when everything is already broken and when

Nauseated by his own helplessness

Rikki Ducornet is beloved as a novelist and essayist

Toussaint creates a character who is obsessed with himself: how he does things and all the ways he might have done them

A Community Writing Itself: Conversations with Vanguard Writers of the Bay Area Format:Paperback Formerly a journalistEdited by Sarah Rosenthal ISBN: 9781564785848 A Community Writing Itself features internationally respected writers Michael Palmer, Nathaniel Mackey, Leslie Scalapino, Brenda Hillman, Kathleen Fraser, Stephen Ratcliffe, Robert Gluck, and Barbara Guest, and important younger writers Truong Tran, Camille Roy, Juliana Spahr, and Elizabeth Robinson. The book fills a major gap in contemporary poetics, focusing on one of the most vibrant experimental