The Problem of Boredom in Paradise: Folly-built

Read Alexis Orgera's insightful interview with Adam Golaski re. the Selected over at Drunken Boat's 20th issue: "[Hannigan's] subjects and styles both ranged and intertwined like a root-bound rhododendron: slavery to boredom, tyranny to seduction, surreal dreamscapes to friendly arguments, cascading blocks of text to an entire collection..."--Orgera's read on Hannigan is witty, as is the structure of the interview. Orgera and Golaski discuss what led to the Selected, the thought process behind the title, the challenge of editing a poet who can't speak up, and etc. Once yr done you might visit Orgera herself--

[ Image from sketches for an Italian language textbook by Paul Hannigan. ]

About the Author

Paul Hannigan was born in Cambridge, MA

in 1936. There, in and around the Boston poetry scene, he grew up as a poet in the company of writers such as Fanny Howe, Bill Knott, William Corbett, DeWitt Henry, Tom Lux, and James Tate. His publishing life extended from the late 60s to the late 70s with a small number of books and chapbooks. He taught at Emerson College and was an occasional editor/reviewer for Ploughshares and The Harvard Review. Hannigan suffered from a series of debilitating illnesses for most of his adult life, from which he eventually succumbed in 2000. He left behind a world of notebooks, unpublished poems, short stories, unfinished novels, fragments, comics and drawings.

About the Book

The Problem of Boredom in Paradise contains selections from a young Hannigan's A Theory of Learning (1966), the chapbook Holland and the Netherlands (Jim Randall's Pym Randall Press, 1970), selections from his books Laughing (Houghton Mifflin, 1970) and The Carnation (Tom Lux's Barn Dream Press, 1972), and the entirety of Bringing Back Slavery (Dolphin Editions, 1976). Also: a large portion of an unpublished manuscript The Higher Slum (1975), an assortment of other unpublished works from the 80s and 90s, and a few original drawings.

The Problem of Boredom in Paradise

Folly-built

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