Out of the Question: Selected Poems (1963-2003) [Paperback]

Out of the Question: Selected Poems 1963-2003gathers together a generous sample of work from Lewis Warshs many earlier collections. Warsh has been associated with the community of New York School writers who first met at The Poetry Project in Manhattan in the late 1960s, but as poet Forrest Gander writes, in a review of Warshs bookInseparable,his influence has been felt nationally and internationally.?Out of the Questionincludes two long poems:The Suicide Rates,first published in 1967, andThe Corset,which appeared in 1986. Novelist Paul Auster describedThe Corsetas not a poem so much as a new way of seeing the world. There is a stunning intelligence at work here, a fierce, deadpan wit that disturbs and enlightens in equal measure. Austers comment can be applied to all of Warshs ongoing experiments, as both a poet and a fiction writer, andOut of the Questionis the best possible introduction to anyone unfamiliar with his multi-layered body of work.

72544x376

Normal0falsefalsefalseEN-USX-NONEX-NONE

Lewis Warsh is the author of over thirty volumes of poetry, fiction and autobiography, includingAlien Abduction(Ugly Duckling Presse, 2015),One Foot Out the Door: Collected Stories  (Spuyten Duyvil, 2014),A Place in the Sun(Spuyten Duyvil, 2010) andInseparable(Granary Books, 2008). He was co-founder, with Bernadette Mayer, of United Artists Magazine and Books, and co-editor, with Anne Waldman, ofThe Angel Hair Anthology(Granary Books, 2001).  He has received grants and awards from the National Endowment for the Arts, the New York State Council of the AlĂ#