Joshua Beckman

The inaugural winner of the annual American Poetry Review/Honickman First Book Award.

Poems

Things are Happening

Recognized as one of his generation's most important voices: fervent, generous, intimate, new.

Shake

Something I Expected to Be Different

Famed for his long poems, award-winning poet Beckman returns with 150 very very short poems.

Your Time Has Come

Brilliantly assembled poetic fragments elucidate the undone and chaotic experiences surrounding a body in the midst of illness.

Animal Days

Joshua Beckman's poems of emotional curiosity invite the reader to a quiet, familiar space.

The Inside of an Apple

Of Beckman's follow-up collection to his APR-Honickman award winning first book, Tomaz Salamun writes: "There are no similarities with Apollinaire or Ginsberg, except with what they were doing to Time while they were young." The contemplative poems of this collection unfurl in startling and beautiful new ways.

Something I Expected to be Different

Kim Addonizio

Jack Zipes

Francine Prose

Norman Lock

Donna Tartt

Aimee Bender

Kate Bernheimer

Matthew Rohrer

Mary Caponegro

Julie Choffel

Monica Fambrough

Sarah Hannah

Brent Hendricks

Stacey Richter

Marjorie Sandor

Kiki Smith

Sarah Veglahn

Wendy Weitman

Contains poetry, fiction, and essays that either address the abiding influence of fairy tales on contemporary literature and culture, or are themselves contemporary fairy tales in prose or verse.

The Blue Issue

Fairy Tale Review

"During 2014, Wave Books editor Joshua Beckman traveled around the country giving lectures on poetry. Collected here as two books in conversation--and inaugurating Wave's Bagley Wright Lecture Series publications--these talks provide a rare and unique insight into a deeply literary life. In The Lives of the Poems, Beckman offers three variations of the same talk that--through repetition and adjustment, a sort of echolocating--illuminate the intimate experience of making a particular set of poems. In Three Talks, he explores the fluid social dynamics of poetry as it lives between readers, poems, and books." -- Publisher's website (viewed 2018 June 25).

Joshua Beckman

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