Solitary Pleasure: Selected Poems, Journals and Ephemera of John Wieners
Solitary Pleasure is a new collection of poetry, journal entries, letters and ephemera by the American poet John Wieners, edited by Richard Porter with an introduction by Nat Raha.
John Wieners (1934-2002) was a poet, a Black Mountain College alumnus and an antiwar, gay rights & mental health activist.
[publisher’s information]Edited by Richard Porter
Cover photograph: John Wieners by Leni Sinclair
Publisher: Pilot Press
ISBN: 9781739702977
136 pages
2023
Stock: ✔
15 Eur
This book is a great love held on paper, groaning out of Black Mountain and Boston. You are hit accurately by the poet flying around you as a reincarnated bow and arrow cherub. John Wieners is a fever dream where the poems forever maintain their mystery, releasing a flood of spontaneity in the reader's imagination. Let's get in the magic with both feet; let's do it now!
— CAConrad, author of Amanda Paradise and While Standing in Line for Death (Wave Books)
