Dear Sweetheart

by Laird Hunt

Poetry. Major new sequence with this note from the author appended in explanation: "Scrawled at the bottom of the last page of the typescript that has become this slim volume, the following: / Dream: On the penultimate page of a late draft of that promising but abandoned pamphlet, "Some Brief Notes on Some Non-Books," Jean Calais, that almost-imaginary author of VILLON, has written: 'A book of letters because a book of letters and not because of the to whom or the from one.'" To which Hunt adds, "This seemed good enough for me. I think it makes a curious little book." Perfectbound chapbook. Also available as part of an 8 book set.

32 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1999

About the author

Laird Hunt is an American writer, translator and academic.

Hunt grew up in Singapore, San Francisco, The Hague, and London before moving to his grandmother's farm in rural Indiana, where he attended Clinton Central High School. He earned a B.A. from Indiana University and a Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing from the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics at Naropa University. He also studied French literature at the Sorbonne. Hunt worked in the press office at the United Nations while writing his first novel. He is currently a professor in the Creative Writing program at University of Denver. Hunt lives with his wife, the poet Eleni Sikelianos, in Boulder, Colorado.