{"product_id":"whiteboardings-creating-collaborative-poetry-in-a-third-space-hardcover","title":"Whiteboardings: Creating Collaborative Poetry in a Third Space - Hardcover","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eHoward F. Stein\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eSeth Allcorn\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eI had the pleasure of reading WHITEBOARDINGS, co-authored poetry by Howard F. Stein and Seth Allcorn, over the course of two days, in small bites, letting the poems digest as I entered into a third space between the writers and the words. The last line still rings: \"what is real?\" What seems real to me now, as the book still settles, is the depth of this third space, what [Donald] Winnicott once called \"potential space\"- which, unlike anything I've encountered, resounds with both wonder and longing in Stein and Allcorn's co-authored poems. Indeed, what seems little acknowledged, perhaps unconsciously avoided even, in the mountains of clinical writing on potential space, is just how creative a process of mourning can become when shared, through the free association of words, on a socalled \"whiteboard.\" A process where the tragic can be at once refused, revisited, reimagined, and ultimately worked with, instead of merely \"worked through.\" I'm also with a palpable feeling - like something \"gone awry\" after a summer's day of tubing down a river (see opening poem, \"River of Snow\"). The authors' words become my own as I ponder whether I can know the river's mysteries. Does it, can it, \"flow upward\" - an \"upward spiral\" away from all the \"slaughter on the ground' - or is it all an \"endless falling without a bottom\"? I'm not sure of an answer - nor sure I want one - but I do recognize that the \"casket was open\" as I read (see \"Life of Files\"), and I saw what the authors saw there, unflinchingly, and I creatively mourned. But I also touched a strange and perhaps timeless beauty, if only for a brief moment, before the casket was closed and the corpse buried, burned, turned to ash. I had borne witness to the culmination of a sustained potential space, forged from a 30-year friendship between the two authors, that offered not just memories but promises back to us, its readers, in an enduring presence: a true gift. -Nathan Gerard, Ph.D. \u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 74\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.31 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e March 10, 2023\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52726721675571,"sku":"9798888381946","price":51.62,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/M0xEdlFuMW9GNnRZNDBicnNXMGUvQT09.webp?v=1763744409","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/en-ca\/products\/whiteboardings-creating-collaborative-poetry-in-a-third-space-hardcover","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}