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Swoon (Granary)

Poetry. Correspondence. Beginning in the fall of 1998, the poet Nada Gordon, then living in Tokyo, and poet/cartoonist Gary Sullivan, who'd moved to New York the previous year, began a daily correspondence that culminated in April of 1999 with Gordon's return to the U.S. after 11 years in Japan. Culled from more than 5,000 pages of e-mail, postcards and letters, SWOON is documentary, love story, poetry, collaborative essay and auto- (or duo-) biography all rolled into one. Written almost inadvertently, it documents the tenacity of love, and shows how it survives — with language as its host — even in inhospitable conditions.

  • Format
  • paperback
  • Pages
  • 312
  • Language
  • english
  • ISBN
  • 9781887123549
  • Genres
  • poetry
  • Release date
  • 2001