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Norman Mailer Poems

Rationale for grouping short items as a single output:

The poems published in The Mailer Review are being submitted as one single output because they represent the result(s) of 1) my creative analysis of Norman Mailer’s general contribution to contemporary American poetry and 2) my ongoing research/analysis of Norman Mailer’s poetics, both in his work as a poet as well as his prose. In addition, the poem “Mailer at the Théâtre du Grand Guignol” was also written as a tribute to Mailer’s life and published alongside tributes written by Sean Penn, Christopher Hitchens, Philip Roth, E.L. Doctorow, and Don DeLillo, among others.

Information about the research process/ content:

My poems published in The Mailer Review represent a three-part creative response to Norman Mailer’s work as a poet. While Mailer often noted that he was not “being altogether candid” when he told friends of his secret wish to “be a vast success at the bar of poetry,” my poems hint at the possibility that Mailer’s poems represent his “embers,” his purest work. In addition, the poems also serve as creative investigations of Mailer’s fundamental Weltanschauung, which informed all of his creative endeavours, including ethical, political, and philosophical notions.