• This book will appeal to the Waldman fanatic as well as broaden her reach to students of the creative process. • What if Brenda Ueland or Julia Cameron had sipped cappucinos with Allen Ginsberg and Ted Berrigan? This is a “how to write” book as only Anne Waldman can do it. • Selected interviews, essays, and reviews by a major figure in contemporary poetry and poetics; a first and only collection. • Buddhism, Naropa, Beats, New York School, Language School, and more. • Praise for Iovis: * “Monumental improvisation, epic length, major work by a major poet”—Allen Ginsberg * “Moves through time space with specifity and force.”—Diane di Prima