Poets and the fools who love them : a memoir in essays /
In Poets and the Fools Who Love Them, a wide-ranging, freewheeling work of memoir, Richard Katrovas describes his passage through the world of poets and poetry over the past forty years. He braids personal, institutional and cultural histories while considering the relation of lyric art to its pedag...
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Baton Rouge :
Louisiana State University Press,
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Table of Contents:
- My father's job was crime
- Name-dropping
- My penchant for violence: poets and physical courage
- Their fathers' queer sons: the apotheosis of Larry Levis
- My gorgons
- Local poets
- Shakespeare, on acid
- My wicked thirties
- Fresno, California: "armpit of America" and breeding ground of American poets
- Poetry is a dead art
- What poets know: dry and wet knowing
- The magic book: why I thought publishing a book would change everything
- Take my wife, please: poetry readings and stand-up
- AWP and me: a meditation
- A privateer in the arts: Arnold Johnston
- Soul retrieval
- Straight and normal: poets and drugs in the New Age
- "The raggedy-ass masses": poets and democracy
- The Dick and the Donald: white privilege and flimflam
- A dead dog and a boy.