by Steve Benson (USA)

This book, published in 2019 by Gauss PDF, presents 36 spontaneous dialogues that were initially presented as pre-announced, live-streamed improvisatory performance pieces, in the form of 30-90 minute online chats between Benson, a downeast Maine psychologist/poet and Suzanne Stein, a San Franciscan poet/essayist/performance artist, working in counterpoint from opposite coasts of the United States over a period of 15 months in 2011-2012. The book – a peculiar permutation, in some ways, of Benson’s clinical process and his writing work – documents an experiment in development of form and genre as well as relationship. Aspects of relational play, tension, connection, and growth will be registered by psychoanalytic readers.

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Steve Benson has lived in downeast Maine since 1996, working as a small-town clinical psychologist. He has written in various modes and media under the sign of poetry, most often orally and textually, since 1966. In most of the 1970s and 80s he was active in the Language Poetry group in the Bay Area. His poetry readings have often incorporated diverse media, improvisation, and collaboration with other writers, musicians, and filmmakers. Benson shares links to his work through stevebensonasis.com.

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