Paul Carroll

Special edition of TriQuarterly - the literary magazine of Northwestern University and of the MA/MFA in Creative Writing program - focused on Chicago. Edited by graduate students in the program, supervised by faculty, and available around the world, TriQuarterly has remained "an international journal of writing, art, and cultural inquiry." (Abstract taken from: http://www.triquarterly.org/about-triquarterly).

This book contains the work of 15 different poets from Chicago along with brief biographical information about each poet.

Codrescu won the 1970 Prize Winner in The Big Table Series of Younger Poets. The poems are divided into three sections, written by three separate authors, created by Codrescu. Codrescu calls the book "a novel, really: the story of three characters getting ready to rejoin the planet."

A collection of poems from the local author, Paul Carroll. Published in 1978, the compilation includes new material as well as poems previously featured in the Chicago Review, Beloit Poetry Journal, Choice, the Nation and more.

From the foreward: "About Paul Carroll's poetry, you can never say one thing... He knows that to be modern he must also be classical: Plato, Aristotle, and the Church fathers move among modern artists and poets, American presidents and Chicago politicians, and social matrons who patronized the arts, architects who have added to or detracted from the city Carroll inhabits at the foot of Lake Michigan-- all these, and other figures, populate the dense, swirling, and always surprising democracy of his imagination."