Dearest Annie, you wanted a report on Berkson's class: Letters from Frances LeFevre to Anne Waldman

Dearest Annie, you wanted a report on Berkson's class: Letters from Frances LeFevre to Anne Waldman

by Frances LeFevre
Dearest Annie, you wanted a report on Berkson's class: Letters from Frances LeFevre to Anne Waldman

Dearest Annie, you wanted a report on Berkson's class: Letters from Frances LeFevre to Anne Waldman

by Frances LeFevre

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Overview


Literary Nonfiction. Memoir. Edited by Lisa Birman with an introduction by Bill Berkson and afterword by Anne Waldman. Frances LeFevre's reports on Bill Berkson's poetry class at the New School, sent to her daughter Anne Waldman, then an undergraduate at Bennington. These lively letters detail Berkson's assignments and mention such fellow classmates as Bernadette Mayer, Hannah Weiner, and Peter Schjeldahl. Not to mention the occasional shopping trip to S. Klein.

"Do we have another such mother/daughter correspondence anywhere else in the world, ever? It's wonderful stuff,"—Eileen Myles

"I read Dearest Annie in one sitting and immediately wished it were longer."—Charles North


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781934909904
Publisher: Hanging Loose Press
Publication date: 02/15/2016
Pages: 128
Product dimensions: 5.90(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.40(d)

About the Author


Poet and key member of the downtown poetry scene during the ferment of the Sixties, Frances LeFevre was also the wife of John Waldman, head of the English department at Pace university, and the mother of Anne Waldman.
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