With Mr. J. R. Morton
Not Complete Enough
The Hotel Wentley Poems (1958)
A poem for record players
A poem for tea heads
A poem for painters
A poem for early risers
A poem for cock suckers
A poem for the old man
A poem for museum goers
A poem for the insane
………
A poem for the dead I know
A poem for movie goers
A poem for benzedrine
from The Journal of John Wieners is to be called 707 Scott Street
(1959)
July 22
July 25
July 27
July 28
July 29
Aug 11
September 6
………
King Solomon’s Magnetic Quiz
`Peyote’ poem
from Ace of Pentacles (1964)
Act #2
A Poem for Trapped Things
The Acts of Youth
An Anniversary of Death
My Mother
Cocaine
………
6.8
Poems 1965–1967
Ancient blue star!
Sickness
Sunset
In the Darkness
Solitary Pleasure
Memories of you
Dope
For Huncke
II Alone
Stationary
Berkeley St Bridge
Parking Lot
Maine
We have a flame within us I told Charles
Pressed Wafer (1967)
Impasse
The Old Man:
The Eagle Bar
There are holy orders in life
The Garbos and Dietrichs
The blind see only this world (A Christmas Card
…….
Loss
What Happened?
from Asylum Poems (1969)
Suisse
Sustenance
Forthcoming
Private Estate
Stop Watch
from Nerves (1970)
Supplication
In Public
Billie
Acceptance
Deprivation
Indignation
The Suck
Reading in Bed
………
The Travel of Imagination through Time
Poems 1972–1974
Viva
Here for the Night
The Pool Hall
Money is Not Monogamous
The Loneliness
Sexual facts are tiring, too
I Hope It Goes On
Music
Yonnie
from Behind the State Capitol or Cincinnati Pike (1975)
………
What a Poet Is For . . .
By the wandering fire we sat and ate
from She’d Turn on a Dime (1984)
Lost poems are like old friends, amore.
Lordship
Biding in the Gloom
September Eleventh
au rive
Charity Balls
The Lanterns Along the Wall
Acknowledgements
Index of Titles and First Lines
We are organizing readings in cities where there is considerable
Wieners appeal, including Boston, New York, and San Francisco.
We'll ask notable poets to read their favorite Wieners poems.
Regional publicity campaigns will coincide.
Galleys and review copies will be sent to major online and print
media outlets, including The New York Times, The New Yorker,
Publishers Weekly, Harper's, and Bookforum.
An ad will appear in Bookforum.
LibraryThing and Goodreads giveaways planned.
Co-op available.
John Wieners (19342002) was a founding member of the New
American” poetry that flourished in America after the Second World
War. Upon graduating from Boston College in 1954, Wieners enrolled
in the final class of Black Mountain College. Following Black
Mountain’s closure in 1956, he founded the small magazine Measure
(19571962) and embarked on a peripatetic life, participating in
poetry communities in Boston, San Francisco, New York, and Buffalo
throughout the late 1950s and 1960s, before settling in Boston in
1972. He is the author of seven collections of poetry, three
one-act plays, and numerous broadsides, pamphlets, uncollected
poems, and journals. Robert Creeley described Wieners as the
greatest poet of emotion” of their time.
Joshua Beckman was born in New Haven, Connecticut. He is the author
of six books, including The Inside of an Apple, Take It, Shake and
two collaborations with Matthew Rohrer: Nice Hat. Thanks. and
Adventures While Preaching the Gospel of Beauty. He is an editor at
Wave Books and has translated numerous works of poetry and prose,
including Poker by Tomaz Salamun, which was a finalist for the PEN
America Poetry in Translation Award, and Five Meters of Poems by
Carlos Oquendo de Amat. He is also the recipient of numerous other
awards, including a NYFA fellowship and a Pushcart Prize. He lives
in Seattle and New York.
CAConrad is the author of ECODEVIANCE: (Soma)tics for the Future
Wilderness, A Beautiful Marsupial Afternoon, and The Book of Frank,
as well as several other books of poetry and essays. A 2014 Lannan
Fellow, a 2013 MacDowell Fellow, and a 2011 Pew Fellow, he also
conducts workshops on (Soma)tic poetry and Ecopoetics.
Robert Dewhurst, a poet and scholar, holds a doctorate from the
Poetics Program at the University at Buffalo. He has edited
numerous small-press publications, most recently serving as the
poetry editor of Semiotext(e)'s Animal Shelter. He lives in LA,
where he is preparing a forthcoming biography and edition of
collected poems of John Wieners.
In his hands, poems are at once “wound,” “tomb,” and “bomb”—sites
of injury, elegy, and threat.
—Dan Chiasson, The New Yorker
His poetry was unburdened and unbuoyed, free, breathless, reckless,
and jarringly, frankly queer — wicking graceful elegance from grim
exile.
—Michael Andor Brodeur, Boston Globe
This notion of the artist as a participant in some kind of
sacramental exercise pervades Wieners’s verse, whose themes of
abjection, rapture, sacrifice, and salvation mean that heroin,
bulging cocks, and pleas to God mix freely together, all suffused
with a profound sense of divine grace. This makes Supplication an
apt title for the new selection of Wieners’s poems.
—Alberto Mobilio, Bookforum
A bridge between the radical content of Allen Ginsberg and the
mainstream, Wieners’s writing fuses the plainspoken with the
florid...Unapologetically queer and overtly sexual, he worries
through the reality of gay life in mid-20th-century America.
—Publishers Weekly (Starred Review)
Important for serious poetry readers and collections capturing
poetry's history.
—Library Journal
Wieners presents himself as a man of astonishing seriousness, a
channel for the occasional prophecy, attuned to literary ambition
as to erotic devotion… He comes across as someone with no barriers,
a man who could really put on paper the “hurts of wanting the
impossible.”
—Stephen Burt, American Poets
Supplication is...an abundantly rewarding book, a treasure-house of
occult desperation and wonder; a rage against life that somehow
hungers for more life.
—Justin Taylor, Electric Literature
[Supplication] demonstrate[s] the infectious, tumultuous love and
joy Wieners took in poetry.
—Patrick James Dunagan, BOMB
Supplication provides a fresh perspective on Wieners’s eclectic and
idiosyncratic oeuvre, spanning the range of affective extremes that
Wieners produced in verse... [It] is an important volume, one that
should place Wieners back into the canon of twentieth-century
American poetic innovation.
—Nat Raha, The Critical Flame
[What] comes across most strongly in Wieners’ selected collection,
Supplication, is a sense of living wild and free while also haunted
by death and societal exclusion.
—Arielle Greenberg, American Poetry Review
In his hands, poems are at once wound,” tomb,” and bomb”sites
of injury, elegy, and threat.
Dan Chiasson, The New Yorker
His poetry was unburdened and unbuoyed, free, breathless, reckless,
and jarringly, frankly queer wicking graceful elegance from grim
exile.
Michael Andor Brodeur, Boston Globe
This notion of the artist as a participant in some kind of
sacramental exercise pervades Wieners’s verse, whose themes of
abjection, rapture, sacrifice, and salvation mean that heroin,
bulging cocks, and pleas to God mix freely together, all suffused
with a profound sense of divine grace. This makes Supplication an
apt title for the new selection of Wieners’s poems.
Alberto Mobilio, Bookforum
A bridge between the radical content of Allen Ginsberg and the
mainstream, Wieners’s writing fuses the plainspoken with the
florid...Unapologetically queer and overtly sexual, he worries
through the reality of gay life in mid-20th-century America.
Publishers Weekly (Starred Review)
Important for serious poetry readers and collections capturing
poetry's history.
Library Journal
Wieners presents himself as a man of astonishing seriousness, a
channel for the occasional prophecy, attuned to literary ambition
as to erotic devotion
He comes across as someone with no barriers,
a man who could really put on paper the hurts of wanting the
impossible.”
Stephen Burt, American Poets
Supplication is...an abundantly rewarding book, a treasure-house of
occult desperation and wonder; a rage against life that somehow
hungers for more life.
Justin Taylor, Electric Literature
[Supplication] demonstrate[s] the infectious, tumultuous love and
joy Wieners took in poetry.
Patrick James Dunagan, BOMB
Supplication provides a fresh perspective on Wieners’s eclectic and
idiosyncratic oeuvre, spanning the range of affective extremes that
Wieners produced in verse... [It] is an important volume, one that
should place Wieners back into the canon of twentieth-century
American poetic innovation.
Nat Raha, The Critical Flame
[What] comes across most strongly in Wieners’ selected collection,
Supplication, is a sense of living wild and free while also haunted
by death and societal exclusion.
Arielle Greenberg, American Poetry Review
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