Coolidge & Cherkovski:
In Conversation (Oct 2020)

Edited by Kyle Harvey
Introduction by Patrick James 
Dunagan

Paperback
146 pages
ISBN 9781946583161
October 1st, 2020

Edited by Kyle Harvey with an introduction by Patrick James Dunagan.

A transcribed conversation between two prolific American poets. Swapping personal stories and anecdotes, Coolidge and Cherkovski offer insight into a wide range of topics including: the New York School, the San Francisco poetry scene of the 60s/70s/80s, the Language School, the Vancouver Poetry Conference, the Berkeley Poetry Conference, David Meltzer, Allen Ginsberg, John Ashbery, Charles Olson, Gertrude Stein, Philip Whalen, Charles Bukowski, Bernadette Mayer, Willem de Kooning, Philip Guston and more. Includes lengthy appendices where each poet presents some thoughts on poetics and their approaches to writing poems.