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memory-obituary "On Alien Land" (on Violet Kazue de Cristofro) by Douglas...
on alien landby Douglas MesserliViolet Kazue de Cristoforo May Sky: There Is Always Tomorrow—An Anthology of Japanese American Concentration Camp Kaiko Haiku (Los Angeles: Sun & Moon...
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review-essay "Journey to the House of Shaws" (on David Kinloch's In My...
journey to the house of shawsby Douglas MesserliDavid Kinloch In My Father’s House(Manchester, England: Carcanet Press, 2005).For a reader uninitiated to the numerous literary references and, more...
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essay "A Vigorous Medley of Voices" (on Jerome Rothernberg's and Jeffrey C....
A VIGOROUS MEDLEY OF VOICESby Douglas Messerli Reading in celebration of Poems for the Millennium, Volume Three: The University of California Book of Romantic & Post Romantic Poetry, edited by...
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essay "Changing Hands" (on the death of David Bromige) by Douglas Messerli
CHANGING HANDSby Douglas MesserliDavid Bromige Threads (Los Angeles: Black Sparrow Press, 1971)David Bromige My Poetry (Berkeley: The Figures, 1980)David Bromige Desire: Selected Poems 1963-1987(Santa...
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Kamau Brathwaite
Kamau Brathwaite [Barbados]1930 Kamau Brathwaite was born Lawson Edward Brathwaite in Bridgetown, Barbados on May 11, 1930. For his secondary education, Brathwaite studied at Harrison College in...
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THE NEW REVIEW OF LITERATURE (Magazine)
THE NEW REVIEW OF LITERATURE (Magazine) (Los Angeles, USA) The New Review of Literature, a magazine produced by the Otis College of Art’s M.F.A Graduate Writing Program, was edited by Paul Vangelisti,...
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Attilio Bertolucci
Attilio Bertolucci [Italy]1911-2000Born on November 18, 1911 in San Lazzaro, in the province of Parma, Attilo Bertolucci grew up in an agricultural bourgeois family. He begin writing poetry and...
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Coral Bracho
Coral Bracho [Mexico]1951Poet Coral Bracho was born in Mexico City in 1951. Her first book of poetry, Peces de piel fugaz (Fish of Fleeting Skin) was published in 1977. Commenting on one of its...
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essay "German Angst" (on Michael Krüger) by Douglas Messerli
GERMAN ANGSTby Douglas Messerli Michael Krüger At Night, Beneath Trees, translated from the German by Richard Dove (New York: George Braziller, 1998)Michael Krüger writes the kind of angst-ridden,...
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Clark Coolidge
Clark Coolidge [USA]1939Poet Clark Coolidge was born on February 26, 1939 in Providence, Rhode Island. As a young he attended Classical High school, with four years of Latin before attending Brown...
View Article"LANGUAGE" POETRIES
“LANGUAGE” POETRIESby Douglas Messerli In a decade in which so many poets and critics have expressed dismay over an ever-shrinking audience for contemporary poetry and have decried what they see as a...
View ArticleOR (Magazine) (USA)
OR (Magazine) (Los Angeles, USA)Edited by director of the MFA Writing Program at Otis College of Literature + Art, OR magazine succeeded that program’s publication, The New Review of Literature, when...
View Articleessay "Negotiation" (on Brossard's' Shadow Soft et Soif) by Douglas Messerli
NEGOTIATION by Douglas Messerli Nicole Brossard, Shadow Soft et Soif, translated from the French by Guy Bennett (Los Angeles: Seeing Eye Books, 2003)The coincidence of Nicole Brossard’s short book of...
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memoir "Trying to Leave" (on Clark Coolidge and Douglas Messerli traveling in...
TRYING TO LEAVEby Douglas Messerli Yesterday's bombing at Moscow's Domodedovo airport could not help but remind me of our group's experiences (poets, musicians, and others who had traveled together...
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review "The Making of Allen Ginsberg" (on Ginsberg's Journals) by Douglas...
THE MAKING OF ALLEN GINSBERGby Douglas Messerli Allen Ginsberg Journals: Early Fifties Early Sixties, edited by Gordon Ball (New York: Grove Press, 1977)In March of 1952, at 26 years of age, Allen...
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Peter Rosei
Peter Rosei [Austria]1946Peter Rosei was born on June 17, 1946 in Vienna. His father was a railway employee and his mother was a shopkeeper. He attended a Gymnasium (university-preparatory school) and...
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review "Somewhere Between Gesticulation and Thought" (on Hatif Janabi's...
SOMEWHERE BETWEEN GESTICULATION AND THOUGHTby Douglas Messerli Hatif Janabi Questions and Their Retinue: Selected Poems, translated from the Arabic by Khaled Mattawa (Fayetteville: The University of...
View ArticleCharles Bernstein's and David Antin's book, A Conversation with David Antin
For Charles Bernstein's book A Conversation with David Antin, please click below (for the full PDF file)https://jacket2.org/commentary/conversation-david-antin-pdf-full-2002-granary-book
View Articleintroduction and poem, A Knife All Blade, by Cabral de Melo Neto
For a brief introduction and translation of Cabral de Melo Neto's important poem, "A Knife All Blade" click below:http://sibila.com.br/english/joao-cabral-de-melo-neto/8989
View Articlereview (of Habib Tengour's Exile Is My Trade) by Laurie Price
For a review of Habib Tengour's poetry in English, Exile Is My Trade: Selected Poetry and Prose by Laurie Price, click below:http://www.pierrejoris.com/blog/?p=9959
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