Saints of Hysteria A Half-Century of Collaborative American Poetry
, by Trinidad, David; Duhamel, Denise; Seaton, MaureenNote: Supplemental materials are not guaranteed with Rental or Used book purchases.
- ISBN: 9781933368184 | 1933368187
- Cover: Paperback
- Copyright: 3/6/2007
Collaborative poetry grew out of word games played by Surrealists in the 1920s and taken up later by Japan's Vou Club and then by Charles Henri Ford, who created the chainpoem, composed by poets who mailed their lines all over the world. Yet, for all its rich history, virtually no collections of collaborative poetry exist. This exhilarating anthology remedies the omission. Featured are poems by as many as 18 people in a dizzying array of forms: villanelles to ghazals, sonnets to somonkas, pantoums to haiku, even quizzes, questionnaires, and other non-literary forms.