{"product_id":"after-the-fact-if-when-and-here-now","title":"After The Fact","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA iterary testament to friendship and the ways in which a vibrant collaboration can inspire poets to plumb the depths of their experiences.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe concluding volumes of a ten-year-long conversation in prose poetry between the award-winning poets Marvin Bell and Christopher Merrill. They write from different generations and places around the world on a range of themes from memory to politics, aging and mortality, the vagaries of desire and the imagination.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBell and Merrill wanted to create a wide-ranging dialogue to explore the meaning not only of their separate experiences but of the very ways in which a collaboration fosters a deeper engagement with each other—and the world. In his penultimate message to Merrill, written just hours before he suffered a heart attack from which he never recovered, Bell said that what he loved about their collaboration was that each new prose poem defined his immediate future—which was what \u003ci\u003eAfter the Fact\u003c\/i\u003e provided both of them for ten glorious years.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"White Pine Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53993241313624,"sku":null,"price":18.5,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9781945680724.jpg?v=1765878340","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/after-the-fact-if-when-and-here-now","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}