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by Helen Klein Ross (Editor)
The original Traveler's Vade Mecum, published in 1853, contained thousands of telegrams. Ross chose telegrams as titles for poems solicited from dozens of poets, including Bollingen Prize winner Frank Bidart and former US Poet Laureate Billy Collins to create a digital-age compendium of old-world poetics. Here are lyric poems, language poems, prose poems, found poems, haikus, pantoums, ekphrases, epistolary poems, acrostics, sonnets and mirror sonnets. Demonstrating the range of what poetry can do, this book provides a fascinating glimpse into the habits and social aspects of 19th century America--and shows how we have evolved 163 years later.
Author Biography
Helen Klein Ross is a poet and novelist whose work has appeared in The New Yorker, The Los Angeles Times, The New York Times, Salmagundi, and in The Iowa Review, where it won the 2014 Iowa Review award in poetry. Her writing has been anthologized in Best of the Bellevue Literary Review (2008), Best of Gigantic (2015), and in SHORT: Five Centuries of Short-Short Stories, Prose Poems, Brief Essays, and Other Short Prose Forms (Persea Books, 2013). Her admiration for those editors has increased during the creation of this anthology.
Helen is the author of two novels and 16,400 tweets. Her most recent book is What Was Mine (Simon & Schuster / Gallery, 2016). She graduated from Cornell University and received an MFA from The New School. She lives with her husband in Manhattan and Salisbury, CT.
