The Poetry of Strangers: What I Learned Traveling America with a Typewriter

by Brian Sonia-Wallace

Book Overview

It might surprise you who's a fan of poetry -- when it meets them where they are.

Before he became an award-winning writer and poet, Brian Sonia-Wallace set up a typewriter on the street with a sign that said "Poetry Store" and discovered something surprising: all over America, people want poems. An amateur busker at first, Brian asked countless strangers, "What do you need a poem about?" To his surprise, passersby opened...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 006287022X
• ISBN13: 9780062870223
• Release Date: June 2020
• Publisher: Harper Perennial
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.2" x 7.9"