All This Thinking - (Recencies Series: Research and Recovery in Twentieth-Century) by Stephanie Anderson (Hardcover)

About the Book

All This Thinking explores the deep friendship and the critical and creative thinking between Bernadette Mayer and Clark Coolidge, focusing on an intense three-year period in their three decades of correspondence.

Book Synopsis

All This Thinking explores the deep friendship and the critical and creative thinking between Bernadette Mayer and Clark Coolidge, focusing on an intense three-year period in their three decades of correspondence. These fiercely independent American avant-garde poets have influenced and shaped poets and poetic movements by looking for radical poetics in the everyday. This collection of letters provides insight into the poetic scenes that followed World War II while showcasing the artistic practices of Mayer and Coolidge themselves. A fascinating look at both the poets and the world surrounding them, All This Thinking will appeal to all readers interested in post-World War II poetry.

Review Quotes

All This Thinking reveals one of the most significant literary friendships of postwar America. The blend of intimacy, fun, and poetic reflection makes this volume not just a deeply enjoyable read but one that will also provoke new understandings of poetry as lived experience.--Ann Vickery, author of Leaving Lines of Gender: A Feminist Genealogy of Language Writing

About the Author

Stephanie Anderson is an assistant professor of literature and creative writing at Duke Kunshan University in China. She is the author of three books of poetry and the coeditor of All This Thinking: The Correspondence of Bernadette Mayer and Clark Coolidge (UNM Press).

Kristen Tapson is a scholar-in-residence in the Department of Art, Art History & Visual Studies at Duke University, where she is also an instructor in Information Science + Studies. Her research focuses on experimental practices in poetry and science.