Lost & Found General Editor Ammiel Alcalay interviews Lost & Found Editor Mary Catherine Kinniburgh on the origins and journey from CUNY Graduate Center student and Lost & Found scholar to her present position as partner with Granary Books—and the book that she wrote along the way. Her book Wild Intelligence: Poets’ Libraries and the Politics of Knowledge in Postwar America published by University of Massachusetts Press (2022) in collaboration with Lost & Found Elsewhere takes up case studies of four poets and their libraries: Charles Olson (1910–1970), Diane di Prima (1934–2020), Gerrit Lansing (1928–2018), and Audre Lorde (1934–1992). Here, she discusses the book's trajectory and her current projects with Granary Books.
Pictured are shelves from Gerrit Lansing's library, a topic in Wild Intelligence.
