{"product_id":"nice-collected-poems-paperback","title":"Nice: Collected Poems - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eDavid Melnick\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eBen Friedlander\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor), \u003cb\u003eAlison Fraser\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eCollected for the first time, four landmark works of queer experimental poetry by reclusive cult poet David Melnick, known for his prowess with invented language and sound poetry.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDavid Melnick's \u003ci\u003eNice: Collected Poems \u003c\/i\u003espans twenty crucial years of gay life and experimentation with poetic form, bringing together four masterworks of American literature: \u003ci\u003eEclogs\u003c\/i\u003e (1967-70), ten episodes in the urban afterlife of pastoral; \u003ci\u003ePCOET\u003c\/i\u003e (1972), written in an unknown tongue, verse for a world that's yet to be; \u003ci\u003eMen in Aida\u003c\/i\u003e (1983-85), Melnick's masterpiece, a giddy epic of queer community; and \u003ci\u003eA Pin's Fee\u003c\/i\u003e (1988), a backward glance and elegy, a cry of pain, howl of anger.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDavid Melnick\u003c\/b\u003e was born in Illinois in 1938 and raised in Los Angeles, educated at the University of Chicago (where he studied with Hannah Arendt) and the University of California at Berkeley. Although he spent time in France, Greece, and Spain (whence his mother's ancestors emigrated in 1492), most of his adult life was centered in San Francisco. For an author's note he once wrote, \"This poet's politics are left, his sexual orientation gay, his family Jewish.... He is short, fat, and resembles Modeste Moussorgsky in face and Gertrude Stein in body type and posture.\" A participant in the Free Speech movement, Melnick was a key member of G.A.W.K. (Gay Artists and Writers Kollective) and an early inspiration to the Language Poets. His masterpiece, \u003ci\u003eMen in Aida\u003c\/i\u003e, began in a reading group organized by Robert Duncan. Melnick passed away in 2022, a day before his 84th birthday.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eBenjamin Friedlander\u003c\/b\u003e is a poet teaching at the University of Maine and editor of Robert Creeley's \u003ci\u003eSelected Poems 1945-2005\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAlison Fraser\u003c\/b\u003e is Associate Curator of the Poetry Collection at the University at Buffalo and editor of \u003ci\u003eThe Collages of Helen Adam\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJeffrey Jullich\u003c\/b\u003e is a poet and lives in New York City. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eRon Silliman\u003c\/b\u003e is the author or editor of twenty-six books, among them \u003ci\u003eThe Alphabet (a long poem)\u003c\/i\u003e, the memoir \u003ci\u003eUnder Albany\u003c\/i\u003e, and the watershed anthology I\u003ci\u003en the American Tree\u003c\/i\u003e (which includes the work of David Melnick).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 240\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e November 07, 2023\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42697969565759,"sku":"9781643621579","price":27.54,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/658e85d136fef2f6729e514c0ee82aae.webp?v=1765009885","url":"https:\/\/dhlswag.com\/products\/nice-collected-poems-paperback","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}