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Love, Loosha - by Lucia Berlin & Kenward Elmslie

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  • Love, Loosha is the extraordinary collection of letters between Lucia Berlin and her dear friend, the poet and Broadway lyricist Kenward Elmslie.
  • About the Author: Chip Livingston is the author of five books of poetry, fiction, and nonfiction and is a professor of creative writing at the Institute of American Indian Arts.
  • 344 Pages
  • Literary Collections, letters

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About the Book



Love, Loosha is the extraordinary collection of letters between Lucia Berlin and her dear friend, the poet and Broadway lyricist Kenward Elmslie.



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Love, Loosha is the extraordinary collection of letters between Lucia Berlin and her dear friend, the poet and Broadway lyricist Kenward Elmslie.



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Conversational, unsensational, ironic, attuned to the absurd.--Times Literary Supplement

More than a delightful record of a unique literary friendship, more than a chronicle of how Lucia and Kenward negotiated distance, patronage, moodiness, and the volatility of two artistic temperaments, Love, Loosha is a splendid treatise on aging out of lives in which decisions were made for pleasure and art more than for practicality or stability. A luscious and lyric counter argument to the dangers of a life lived in pursuit of beauty. Brava. Bravo.--Pam Houston, author of Deep Creek: Finding Hope in the High Country

These letters read like a literary love affair between two brilliant writers who aim to delight, entertain, and confide in each other. What Berlin says of Elmslie's side of the correspondence is true of both: 'Beautiful writing, good gossip, funny stories. . . . You and I have known remarkable people.'--Jennifer Dunbar Dorn, editor of Collected Poems: Edward Dorn

This book, the correspondence of two good writers and close friends, presents completely new material written very well and at the same time in a comfortable and natural style. The letters are personal, warm, witty, imaginative, detailed, sometimes lyrical, and, most compellingly, written with frankness, honesty, and good humor. Here, we can look 'behind' their art and witness what goes on in their day-to-day lives, how they experience moments of joy or well-being, how they suffer and try to laugh off their suffering. Above all, the compelling pleasure of the book is the opportunity to spend personal, intimate time in the company of these lively, intelligent, compassionate, and mutually loving people.--Lydia Davis, author of Essays One and Essays Two: On Proust, Translation, Foreign Languages, and The City of Arles



About the Author



Chip Livingston is the author of five books of poetry, fiction, and nonfiction and is a professor of creative writing at the Institute of American Indian Arts. He is a former fiction student and close friend of Lucia Berlin, and, upon Lucia's introduction and suggestion, he became Kenward Elmslie's personal assistant for ten years.

Lucia Berlin was the author of several short-story collections. In 2015 A Manual for Cleaning Women was published posthumously and became both a New York Times and an international bestseller.

Kenward Elmslie was a member of the New York School of poetry, having written fifteen books of poems, several plays, and a novel as well as opera librettos and books and lyrics for Broadway and off-Broadway musicals.

Dimensions (Overall): 8.6 Inches (H) x 5.7 Inches (W) x 1.3 Inches (D)
Weight: 1.25 Pounds
Suggested Age: 22 Years and Up
Number of Pages: 344
Genre: Literary Collections
Sub-Genre: Letters
Publisher: High Road Books
Format: Hardcover
Author: Lucia Berlin & Elmslie Kenward
Language: English
Street Date: November 1, 2022
TCIN: 88967581
UPC: 9780826364166
Item Number (DPCI): 247-23-1639
Origin: Made in the USA or Imported
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Estimated ship dimensions: 1.3 inches length x 5.7 inches width x 8.6 inches height
Estimated ship weight: 1.25 pounds
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