Polemics

by Jack Collom, Jack Collom

Poetry. Essay. In this collaborative work, three poets long associated with the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics at Naropa in Boulder join their linguistic bonfires in a volume of polemical poems. Bob Perelman writes, Anselm Hollo puts more vivid emotion in 50 words than is found in most confessional novels. And Andrei Codrescu writes that Anne Waldman is one of the great voices of our slice of the century.

192 pages, Paperback

First published December 15, 1998

About the author

Jack Collom was born in Chicago in 1931 and grew up in nearby Western Springs, where he spent much of his boyhood walking in the woods and bird watching. After graduating from the Forestry School at Colorado A&M College, Collom joined the US Air Force and wrote his first poems in Tripoli, Libya. He lived in Germany a Zeitlang, then returned stateside and worked in factories for twenty years. He was an adjunct professor at Naropa University in Boulder, Colorado and worked extensively with schoolchildren for thirty-five years. Collom was the author of twenty-four books and chapbooks as well as editor (with commentaries) of three books of writings by children. Collom was twice been awarded the National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, in part for his experimental nature writings. He had four grown children and was married to the writer Jennifer Heath.