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Starlight and Shadow by Tom Clark
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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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My Baby Fell Apart by Annie Finch
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Ahadada Books is pleased to present My Baby Fell
Apart by Annie Finch. My Baby Fell Apart
is the thirty-first release in the Ahadada Books Online Chapbook
series.
Annie
Finch is the author or editor of fifteen books of poetry, translation,
and criticism. Her books of poetry include Eve,
Calendars, The Encyclopedia of Scotland, The Complete Poems of Louise
Labé, and the forthcoming Among the Goddesses: A Narrative
Libretto. Her music, art, and
theater collaborations include two operas. Her poems appear in
anthologies, textbooks, and journals including Agni,
Court Green, Fulcrum, Kenyon Review, Jacket, Paris Review, Prairie
Schooner, and Yale Review,
and her books on poetics include A
Formal Feeling Comes, An Exaltation of Forms, The Ghost of Meter, The
Body of Poetry, and the
forthcoming A Poet’s Craft. Her book of poetry Calendars
was shortlisted for the Foreword Poetry Book of the Year Award and in
2009 she was awarded the Robert Fitzgerald Award. She has performed her
poetry across the U.S. and in England, France, Greece, Ireland, and
Spain. Finch earned a BA from Yale University, MA in Creative Writing
from the University of Houston, and PhD in English from Stanford
University. She lives in Maine where she directs Stonecoast, the
low-residency MFA program at the University of Southern Maine. |
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A Disordered City by Jack Foley
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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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Canto Diurno #4: The Tang Extending From The Blade by Pierre Joris
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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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the meh of z z z z by Pam Brown
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Date added: 01/19/2010 |
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Since 1971 Australian poet Pam Brown has published many books and chapbooks including Text thing (Little Esther Books, 2002), Dear Deliria and True Thoughts
(Salt Publishing, 2003 and 2008). She has also written for film and
theatre. She collaborated with Seattle-based Egyptian poet Maged Zaher
on a collection of poems called farout library software published by Tinfish Press in 2007. Her next book Authentic Local is due from Papertiger Media in 2010.
She
has earned a living variously and, until recently, spent many years
thoroughly absorbed in the processes of classification and archiving at
a sciences library at the University of Sydney.
For five years, from 1997 until 2002, she was the poetry editor of the Australian literary quarterly Overland and currently co-edits Jacket magazine. She is also associated with HOW2 and Fulcrum
magazines. Born in Seymour Victoria, in her imagination Pam Brown lives
in Hellbourg, La Réunion, in real life she is currently doing time in
Blackheath, in the Blue Mountains west of Sydney. She keeps a blog at thedeletions.blogspot.com (http://thedeletions.blogspot.com). |
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