Bøger om American Poetry

THE NEW AMAZING GRACE is a fascinating blend of cultural canon, deeplypersonal memoir, and a log of 13 tumultuous years in the already eventful life ofauthor, musician, and private person EdSanders.In this candid logbook, we follow EdSanders at work, on trips - but also athome in the mountainside semi-rural inWoodstock among tame deer and wildbears, where he has lived with his wifethe painter and writer Miriam Sandersfor over 40 years, and where they raisedtheir daughter Deirdre.His productivity in this period from 1992-2004 is almost terrifying. Largeprojects such as the musical play Cassandra and the first three volumes of themasterpiece America, A History in Verse are completed.Ed Sanders also finds time for the large-scale project The New Amazing Grace,where he creates a musical marathon of new verses to the beloved classic in cooperation with a large number of colleagues from Allen Ginsberg to Pete Seeger.However, this book is not just about Ed Sanders’ own activities, big and small,from local politics to newspaper publishing and project administration. It isequally a highly personal and entertaining portrait of the times - and the exciting people he met.The book is Illustrated throughout with archival photos and Sander’s owncharming drawings - often inspired by the Egyptian glyphs. As a bonus, thisbook is also full of Sanders’ poems and small essays.Enjoy this collection of entertaining and clever statements from one of Americas profilic writers. In English. Illustrated in Colour.