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Canto Diurno #4: The Tang Extending From The Blade by Pierre Joris
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Date added: 01/19/2010 |
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Pierre Joris has moved between the US, Great Britain, North Africa, France Luxembourg for some forty years now. He has published over 40 books of poetry, essays and translations. In 2007 2008 he published Aljibar and Aljibar II (poems, a bilingual edition with French translation by Eric Sarner, Editions PHI, Luxembourg). Justifying the Margins: Essays 1990-2006 came out in 2009 from SALT in the UK. His 2007 publications are the CD Routes, not Roots (with Munir Beken, oud; Mike Bisio, bass; Ben Chadabe, percussion; Mitch Elrod, guitar, issued by Ta’wil Productions (http://www.tawilproductions.com/)) and Meditations on the Stations of Mansour Al-Hallaj 1-21 (Anchorite Press (http://www.anchoritepress.blogspot.com/), Albany). Other translations include Paul Celan: Selections (University of California Press) and 4x1: Work by Tristan Tzara, Rainer Maria Rilke, Jean-Pierre Duprey Habib Tengour translated by Pierre Joris from Inconundrum Press. With Jerome Rothenberg he edited Poems for the Millennium, vol. 1 2: The University of California Book of Modern Postmodern Poetry. Green Integer published 3 volumes of his Paul Celan translations: Breathturn, Threadsuns and Lightduress
(which received the 2005 PEN Poetry Translation Award). He lives in Bay
Ridge, Brooklyn with his wife, the performance artist Nicole Peyrafitte
and teaches poetry poetics at the State University of New York, Albany.
You can check out Joris' daily commentaries on poetry, poetics politics, as well as his reading/performing calendar on NOMADICS blog (http://pierrejoris.com/blog) and on the HOMAD website.
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Attic, Shed, and Barn by Lewis Turco
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Date added: 11/04/2009 |
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Ahadada Books is pleased to present Attic, Shed, and Barn by Lewis Putnam Turco. Attic, Shed, and Barn is the twenty-fifth release in the Ahadada Books Online Chapbook series.
Lewis Turco is the author of The Book of Forms: A Handbook of Poetics,
known to three generations of poets and students of poetry as “the
poet’s Bible.” He was founding director of both the Cleveland State
University Poetry Center in 1962 and the Creative Writing Program at
the State University of New York College at Oswego in 1968 from which
he retired as Emeritus Professor of English in 1996. He took his B. A.
from the University of Connecticut in 1959 and his M. A. from the
University of Iowa in 1962. In 2000 he received a first honorary
degree, Doctor of Humane Letters, from Ashland University, and a second
in 2009 from the University of Maine at Fort Kent. His poems, essays,
stories and plays have appeared in most of the major literary
periodicals over more than a half-century, and in over one hundred
books and anthologies. Of his fifty books, chapbooks and monographs,
his volume of criticism, Visions and Revisions of American Poetry won the Melville Cane Award of the Poetry Society of America in 1986, and his A Book of Fears: Poems,
with Italian translations by Joseph Alessia, won the first annual
Bordighera Bi-Lingual Poetry Prize in 1998. His most recent volumes areThe Collected Lyrics of Lewis Turco / Wesli Court 1953-2004; Fearful Pleasures: The Complete Poems, 1959-2007; The Museum of Ordinary People and Other Stories 2008; Satan’s Scourge: A Narrative of the Age of Witchcraft in England and New England 1580-1697, and La Famiglia / The Family, Memoirs,
both published in 2009. In 1999 he received the John Ciardi Award for
lifetime achievement in poetry sponsored by the periodical Italian Americana
and the National Italian American Foundation., and in 2007 the Robert
Fitzgerald Prosody Award given by the West Chester University Poetry
Conference. |
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rock. paper. scissors by Scott Glassman
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Date added: 10/23/2009 |
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Ahadada Books is pleased to present rock. paper. scissors. by Scott Glassman. rock. paper. scissors.
is the twenty-third release in the Ahadada Books Online Chapbook
series. Because it contains an audio file, this Online Chapbook is 6.8
megabytes.
Scott Glassman's most recent work is Quaternity, a collaboration with Sheila E. Murphy (Otoliths, 2009). He is also the author of several chapbooks: Exertions (Cy Gist Press, 2006), Surface Tension (Dusie, 2006) with Mackenzie Carignan, and Identity Crisis
(Dusie, 2006). He was selected as a finalist for the 2006 Iowa Review
Award for Poetry and included in Best New Poets 2007, edited by Natasha
Trethewey. His poems have appeared in many print and online journals,
including Jubilat, Iowa Review, CutBank, 580 Split, Sentence, Marginalia, eratio, and Shampoo. He is currently a doctoral student in clinical psychology and works as a mental health therapist in Philadelphia. |
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Starlight and Shadow by Tom Clark
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Date added: 03/30/2010 |
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Ahadada
Books is pleased to present Starlight and Shadow by Tom Clark.Starlight and Shadow
is the thirty-second release in
the Ahadada Books Online Chapbook
series.
Tom Clark was born in Chicago in 1941 and educated at
the University of Michigan, Cambridge University and the University of
Essex. He has worked variously as an editor (The Paris Review),
critic (Los Angeles Times, San Francisco Chronicle) and
biographer (lives of Damon Runyon, Jack Kerouac, Charles Olson, Robert
Creeley, Edward Dorn), has written novels (Who is Sylvia?, The Exile
of Céline, The Spell) and essays (The Poetry Beat, Problems of
Thought: Paradoxical Essays). His many collections of poetry have
included Stones, Air, At Malibu, John's Heart, When Things Get Tough
on Easy Street, Paradise Resisted, Disordered Ideas, Fractured Karma,
Sleepwalker's Fate, Junkets on a Sad Planet: Scenes from the Life of
John Keats, Like Real People, Empire of Skin, Light and Shade, The New
World, Something in the Air, and Feeling for the Ground.
He lives in Berkeley, California with his wife and partner of forty-two
years, Angelica Heinegg. Check out his blog at TomClarkBlog.blogspot.com (http://tomclarkblog.blogspot.com/) |
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A Disordered City by Jack Foley
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Date added: 03/30/2010 |
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Ahadada
Books is pleased to present A Disordered City
by Jack Foley. A Disordered City is the
thirtieth release in the Ahadada Books Online Chapbook series.
Jack Foley is a poet and
critic living in the San Francisco Bay area. His poetry books include Letters/Lights—Words
for Adelle; Gershwin; Exiles; Adrift (nominated for a Northern
California Book Reviewers Award); Greatest Hits 1974-2003; and Ash
on an Old Man's Sleeve. His books of criticism include the
companion volumes, O Powerful Western Star (winner of the
Artists Embassy Literary/Cultural Award 1998-2000) and Foley’s
Books: California Rebels, Beats, and Radicals as well as The
Dancer and the Dance: A Book of Distinctions. Foley’s radio show, Cover
to Cover, is heard every Wednesday at 3:00 p.m. west coast time on
Berkeley station KPFA and is available at the KPFA web site; his
column, “Foley’s Books,” appears in the
online magazine, The Alsop Review. He is well known for his
poetry performances with his wife Adelle, also a poet. His poetry has
been nominated for a Pushcart Award. In June, 2010, he will receive the
Lifetime Achievement Award from The Berkeley Poetry Festival. |
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