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Poets on the Road

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  • Product Details

    Author:
    Maureen Owen, Barbara Henning
    Format:
    Paperback
    Pages:
    176
    Publisher:
    City Point Press (June 6, 2023)
    Language:
    English
    ISBN-13:
    9781947951709
    ISBN-10:
    194795170X
    Weight:
    10.48oz
    Dimensions:
    6.125" x 9.25" x 0.4"
    File:
    Eloquence-SimonSchuster_06032026_P10163223_onix30_Complete-20260603.xml
    Folder:
    Eloquence
    List Price:
    $18.00
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    40
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    $13.86
    Publisher Identifier:
    P-SS
    Discount Code:
    A
    Audience:
    General/trade
    Pub Discount:
    65
    Imprint:
    City Point Press
  • Overview

    Calling to mind Basho¯’s late life journeys through the backcountry of Japan, two women poets in a well-worn Honda hit the road for a legendary pilgrimage in a far-flung (pre-pandemic) landscape of American poetry.

    Although a road trip across North American calls to mind Jack Kerouac’s youthful meanderings of self-discovery, this reading tour was more in the manner of Basho¯’s late life journeys through the backcountry of Japan. . . . The road trip was in a sense a pilgrimage of reengagement with their calling as poets, and a chance to reacquaint with like-minded friends, old and new, in a far-flung landscape of American poetry.

    Venues would include upscale bookstores, coffee houses, museums, legendary used bookstores, botanical gardens, university classrooms, art centers, and artist coops—in short, a unique sampling of poetry environments tracing an arc across the Southern States, the Southwest, and up the West Coast before hooking back to the Rockies.

    Framed as a personal challenge, the poets hit the road much in the manner of itinerant preachers and musicians, lodging at discount motels, funky hostels, Airbnbs, and with friends along the way. Adding a social media touch, Maureen and Barbara created a blog of their tour so that friends, family, hosts, and fellow poets might also share in their adventure.

    ­—from the Introduction by Pat Nolan