Talking All Night

Talking All Night
The New York Poets: Interviews, Photos and Letters
by Mark Hillringhouse

Serving House Press, 2025.

Mark Hillringhouse, in his book of interviews with the poets of the New York School, lets the poets speak for themselves in their own words about the poetry they were writing, giving readers for the first time, a full picture of how they created and forged a new poetics. By interviewing the poets in their homes, he lets readers see inside their world during the years they were at their peak. Along with the interviews, Hillringhouse, who is also a photographer, includes never before seen photographic portraits of each of the poets and personal letters that they wrote. It is a full account of how these poets were influenced and how they interacted with each other as they explain what brought them to poetry and how they developed their poetic craft. Hillringhouse provides an in-depth introduction to each of the interviews that includes John Ashbery, Amiri Baraka, Ted Berrigan, Edwin Denby, Barbara Guest, Bob Holman, Kenneth Koch, Bernadette Mayer, W.S. Merwin, Howard Moss, Simon Pettet, James Schuyler, Tony Towle, Gerald Stern, Paul Violi, and Anne Waldman.

Airmail

AIRMAIL
THE LETTERS OF ROBERT BLY AND TOMAS TRANSTRÖMER

Edited by Thomas R. Smith

Airmail provides a rare portrait of two artists who have become integral to each other’s particular genius and who are essential contributors to global literature. Across their correspondence, Bly and Tranströmer are profoundly engaged with each other and with the larger world: the Vietnam War, European and American elections, and the struggles of affording a life as a writer. Airmail also illuminates the work of translation, as each begins translating the other’s poetry. Their collaboration quickly turned into a friendship that has lasted fifty years. Airmail collects more than 290 letters, written from 1964 until 1990, when Tranströmer suffered a stroke that left him partially paralyzed. This publication marks the first time letters by Bly and Tranströmer have been made available in the United States, and this edition includes poetry and translations by both writers that have never before been published.