Announcing with great delight, Solitary Pleasure, a new collection, from the UK-based Pilot Press, of the incomparable John Wieners – poetry, journal entries, letters and ephemera – edited by Richard Porter with an introduction by Nat Raha.
For John Wieners on the Allen Ginsberg Project – see, to begin with, here and here
For John Wieners Birthday postings – see here, here, here, here and here
and here (Jim Dunn) and here (Seth Stewart)
M. Seth Stewart, the editor of John’s Letters and Stars Seen in Person – Selected Journals writes:
“Any “selected poems” is going to reveal the tastes of its editor, especially when those poems are selected from among an extensive body of work like the one John Wieners left us. Richard Porter‘s taste is exquisite, and his selection covers great ground, from the torch song poems of Wieners’ early career to the rich, tessellated works of his beautiful and anguished late-sixties period. If I wanted a friend to fall in love with John Wieners, I’d give them this book.”
More early (prescient) UK appreciation of Wieners – see here, here, and here
(and from 2022 – A John Wieners Symposium)