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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
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My Baby Fell Apart by Annie Finch
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Date added: 03/30/2010 |
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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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Five Dances: free E-book by Maurice Scully
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Date added: 08/03/2009 |
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Maurice Scully, born in Dublin in 1952, has been publishing mainly in the UK for many years through presses like Gallping Dog, Pig, Reality Street, etruscan books, Shearsman and Oystercatcher Press. Things That Happen, a large work in 8 books 3 chapbooks written over a 25-year period, is currently available as a 4-vol set: 5 Freedoms of Movement, Livelihood, Sonata and Tig. A sampler of work, Doing the Same in English, was recently published by Dedalus Press, Dublin. A new book, Humming, is due from Shearsman in autumn/winter 2009.
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After Lolita by Cassandra Atherton
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Date added: 01/11/2010 |
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Ahadada Books is pleased to present After Lolita by Cassandra L. Atherton. After Lolita is the twenty-seventh release in the Ahadada Books Online Chapbook series.
Cassandra Atherton is a writer, critic and balletomane from Victoria, Australia. She completed her PhD at The University of Melbourne, Australia. Her book, Flashing Eyes and Floating Hair: A Reading of Gwen Harwood's Pseudonymous Poetry, was published by Australian Scholarly press and she is currently revising Wise Guys: The Role and Responsibility of the Academic Public Intellectual in America for publication.
This book is based on her interviews with Professors Harold Bloom,
Camille Paglia, Stephen Greenblatt, Todd Gitlin, Howard Zinn and Noam
Chomsky, among many others. She is a lead interviewer for the University of California’s Writing on the Edge journal and a reviewer for the Italian journal Il Tolomeo. She is currently editing an Australian edition of the journal Ekleksographia.
Cassandra
lectures at both The University of Melbourne and Deakin University in
Australian literature, Canonical Poetry, Literary Classics,
Romanticism, Modernism and Creative Writing. She has published extensively in Australian and American journals and her novel, The Man Jar, is being published later this year by Printed Matter Press. She is currently working on her second novel, Cherry Bomb, after being awarded the Felix Meyer Fellowship and traveling to Japan to research the floating world and roricon. She would like to return to Tokyo in the next few years to live and teach.
In
2008, Cassandra married Dr Glenn Moore, a lecturer in American history
at The University of Melbourne, in Boston, Massachusetts. They live with their two ragdoll cats, Bellamy and Tallulah in Moonee Ponds.
Cassandra is obsessed with Mikhail Baryshnikov, Christian Louboutin
shoes, Alannah Hill dresses, cherry blossoms and Long Island Iced Teas. |
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