This is a compilation of writing from the first nine years of Fence magazine that presents a stunningly eclectic compendium of poetry, short fiction, criticism, and creative nonfiction.
Ever idiosyncratic, Fence evades the tedium of the decade with this anthology, co-edited by eleven of Fence’s editors past and present, including founding editor Rebecca Wolff ; fiction editors Jonathan Lethem, Ben Marcus, and Lynne Tillman; poetry editors Caroline Crumpacker, Katy Lederer, Matt hew Rohrer, Christopher Stackhouse, and Max Winter; and nonfiction editors Frances Richard and Jason Zuzga. In addition to presenting a stunningly eclectic compendium of poetry, short fiction, criticism, and creative nonfiction, much of it by younger writers who appeared in Fence at the beginning of careers that went on to be dazzling, this volume includes refl ective essays by editors on their experiences with selected texts, with authors, with the magazine as a collective, and with their own editorial identities, and serves as an indispensable record of the inception and continuation of one of the most infl uential literary journals of its time.
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REBECCA WOLFF is the founding editor and publisher of Fence and Fence Books, and of The Constant Critic, a poetry review website. She is the author of Manderley, Figment, and of The King (2009). A program fellow of the New York State Writers Institute, she lives in Athens, New York.
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This is the first of a 2-volume set.
Volume 2 is here. Or you may buy the
2-volume set here.
