Saltian: "to dance" - Paperback

by Alice Shapiro (Author)

Award-winning writer Alice Shapiro embarked on an adventure: to discover how collaborative editing might alter her manuscript. After assembling an editorial board, the publisher sent the poems to the board for critique and then posted the poems and the critiques online for reader feedback. Alice then took the critique and the reader comments and revisited each poem, reserving the author's right to emend the work by her own decision. This book presents the final version of the collection along with an appendix of each original poem, the editorial board critiques, and the reader comments. The work can be read solely as a collection of final poems, taught as a poetry study in revision, or experienced cumulatively as a unique look at craft and process. It is a one-of-a-kind collaboration meant for readers, writers, and anyone interested in the art of creativity.

Author Biography

Alice Shapiro is currently serving as Poet Laureate of Douglasville, GA. Her first collection of poems, Cracked: Timeless Topics of Nature, Courage, and Endurance (Total Recall Press 2009), earned her a Pushcart Prize nomination and Georgia Author of the Year nomination (2010). Her second collection, Life, Descending/Ascending, also published by Total Recall Press, was released in 2010 to critical acclaim and her one-act play Four Voices won the Bill C. Davis Drama Award for a verse play and was performed as part of the first annual Turner Cassity Literary Festival, July 2011. Alice is Executive Producer of a TV competition for poets, and was one of the judges for Poetry Out Loud's 2010 and 2011 regionals. She serves on the planning board for the Turner Cassity Literary Festival.