{"title":"Mark Hillringhouse","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"talking-all-night-the-new-york-poets-interviews-photographs-letters-paperback","title":"Talking All Night: The New York Poets Interviews, Photographs, Letters - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMark 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. \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51376733749471,"sku":"9781947175662","price":31.27,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/0rr_EF357E9781947175662.webp?v=1789221824"},{"product_id":"paterson-light-and-shadow-hardcover","title":"Paterson Light and Shadow - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003ePaterson Light and Shadow\u003c\/em\u003e tells the stories in poetry and photography of Paterson, New Jersey, from one of the most gifted poets, Maria Mazziotti Gillan, and fine art photographer Mark Hillringhouse, who together have spent a lifetime living, growing up and working in and around one of America's most important historic industrial cities.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn her signature style, Gillan combines sublime moments with gritty detail when she writes about growing up as a working class Italian immigrant as in the lines from the poem \u003cem\u003eIn the Still\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cem\u003ePhotograph, Paterson, New Jersey, Circa 1950\u003c\/em\u003e: \"The rough feel of a washcloth \/ and Lifebuoy soap against my face, \/ the stiff, starched feel of my blouse, \/ the streets of Paterson, old and cracked, \/ the houses leaning together \/ like crooked teeth...\" Hillringhouse's award-winning black and white Paterson photographs accompany each poem and resonate with the mood and feeling of Gillan's writing in crushed velvety blacks and grayscale tones that evoke the moods of this city's past and its urban decay.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis collection contains over thirty poems and thirty photographs that together explore the hallowed precincts of this once great industrial city, envisioned by Alexander Hamilton as the birthplace of manufacturing in a new nation, a city now home to countless immigrants who still struggle to work and to build lives and survive.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51377754079455,"sku":"9780997779752","price":43.13,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/17IOaWhqsP9780997779752.webp?v=1789240102"}],"url":"https:\/\/blackandbarhe.com\/collections\/mark-hillringhouse.oembed","provider":"Black \u0026 Barhe Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}