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Burning Deck Press
Burning Deck was a small press specializing in the publication of experimental poetry and prose. Burning Deck was founded by the writers Keith Waldrop and Rosmarie Waldrop in 1961 and closed in 2017. Overview Although the Waldrops initially promoted ''Burning Deck'' magazine as a "quinterly", after only four issues the periodical was transformed into a series of pamphlets. The transformation continued later until the press became a publisher of books of poetry and short fiction.Forty Years of Burning Deck Press 1961 - 2001
at Brown University Library Web site in conjunction with an exhibit on the press, accessed January 28, 2007.
The magazine published poets from different styles and schools. The main split in poets of that time was said to be the one between the "acade ...
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Keith Waldrop
Keith Waldrop (born December 11, 1932, in Emporia, Kansas) is an American poet, translator, and academic. He has authored numerous books of poetry and prose and translated the work of Claude Royet-Journoud, Anne-Marie Albiach, and Edmond Jabès, among others. One such translation is Charles Baudelaire's ''Les Fleurs du Mal'' (2006). He won the National Book Award for Poetry for his 2009 collection ''Transcendental Studies: A Trilogy''. Personal life Waldrop started his education at Kansas State Teachers College, studying to be a doctor. However, in 1953, he was drafted into the United States Army and stationed in West Germany, where he met his wife Rosmarie Waldrop. Career Waldrop received his Ph.D. in comparative literature from the University of Michigan in 1964 and four years later began teaching at Brown University (1968). With Rosmarie Waldrop, he co-edits Burning Deck Press. He lives in Providence, Rhode Island, and became a professor emeritus at Brown in 2011. The Fr ...
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Lyn Hejinian
Lyn Hejinian (born May 17, 1941) is an American poet, essayist, translator and publisher. She is often associated with the Language poets and is known for her landmark work ''My Life'' (Sun & Moon, 1987, original version Burning Deck, 1980), as well as her book of essays, ''The Language of Inquiry'' (University of California Press, 2000). Life Hejinian was born in the San Francisco Bay Area and lives in Berkeley, California, with her husband, composer/musician Larry Ochs. She has published over a dozen books of poetry and numerous books of essays as well as two volumes of translations of the Russian poet Arkadii Dragomoshchenko. From 1976 to 1984 she was editor of Tuumba Press, and from 1981 to 1999 she co-edited (with Barrett Watten) ''Poetics Journal''. She is the co-editor of ''Atelos'', which publishes cross-genre collaborations between poets and other artists. Hejinian has worked on a number of collaborative projects with painters, musicians and filmmakers. She teaches ...
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Poetry Organizations
Poetry (derived from the Greek '' poiesis'', "making"), also called verse, is a form of literature that uses aesthetic and often rhythmic qualities of language − such as phonaesthetics, sound symbolism, and metre − to evoke meanings in addition to, or in place of, a prosaic ostensible meaning. A poem is a literary composition, written by a poet, using this principle. Poetry has a long and varied history, evolving differentially across the globe. It dates back at least to prehistoric times with hunting poetry in Africa and to panegyric and elegiac court poetry of the empires of the Nile, Niger, and Volta River valleys. Some of the earliest written poetry in Africa occurs among the Pyramid Texts written during the 25th century BCE. The earliest surviving Western Asian epic poetry, the ''Epic of Gilgamesh'', was written in Sumerian. Early poems in the Eurasian continent evolved from folk songs such as the Chinese ''Shijing'', as well as religious hymns (the Sanskrit '' ...
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Alternative Press
Alternative press may refer to: Individual publications * ''Alternative Press'' (magazine), an American music magazine Alternative journalism * Alternative media ** Alternative media (U.S. political left) ** Alternative media (U.S. political right) ** Alternative media in the United Kingdom * Alternative newspaper ** List of alternative weekly newspapers * Independent media * Radical media * Underground press Journalistic trade associations * Association of Alternative Newsmedia The Association of Alternative Newsmedia (AAN) is a trade association of alternative weekly newspapers in North America. It provides services to many generally liberal or progressive weekly newspapers across the United States and in Canada. A ..., a national Michigan based trade association of weekly newspapers * The Alternative Press (TAPinto), a network of more than 80 franchised online local news sites in New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania and Florida {{disambiguation ...
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Small Press Publishing Companies
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Book Publishing Companies Of The United States
A book is a medium for recording information in the form of writing or images, typically composed of many pages (made of papyrus, parchment, vellum, or paper) bound together and protected by a cover. The technical term for this physical arrangement is ''codex'' (plural, ''codices''). In the history of hand-held physical supports for extended written compositions or records, the codex replaces its predecessor, the scroll. A single sheet in a codex is a leaf and each side of a leaf is a page. As an intellectual object, a book is prototypically a composition of such great length that it takes a considerable investment of time to compose and still considered as an investment of time to read. In a restricted sense, a book is a self-sufficient section or part of a longer composition, a usage reflecting that, in antiquity, long works had to be written on several scrolls and each scroll had to be identified by the book it contained. Each part of Aristotle's ''Physics'' is called a bo ...
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Elizabeth Willis
Elizabeth Willis (born April 28, 1961, Bahrain) is an American poet and literary critic. She currently serves as Professor of Poetry at the Iowa Writers' Workshop. Willis has won several awards for her poetry including the National Poetry Series and the Guggenheim Fellowship. Susan Howe has called Elizabeth Willis "an exceptional poet, one of the most outstanding of her generation." Life Willis grew up in the Midwestern United States and received her undergraduate degree from the University of Wisconsin–Eau Claire. She then earned a Ph.D. from the Poetics Program at University at Buffalo. Willis has taught at several institutions including Brown University, Mills College, the University of Denver and Wesleyan University and has held residencies at the MacDowell Colony and the Centre International de Poésie, Marseille. Formerly the Shapiro-Silverberg professor of literature and creative writing at Wesleyan University, she currently serves as Professor of Poetry at the Iowa ...
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Marjorie Welish
Marjorie Welish ( ; born June 2, 1944) is an American poet, artist, and art critic. Welish is a graduate of Columbia University and received her M.F.A. degree from Vermont College and Norwich University. She also studied at the Art Students League of New York. She lives in New York City and teaches art and literary criticism and art history at Pratt Institute; she has also frequently taught poetry at Brown University. Welish was the Judith E. Wilson Visiting Poetry Fellow at Cambridge University in 2005. Welish's ''The Annotated 'Here' and Selected Poems'' was a finalist for the Lenore Marshall Prize from the Academy of American Poets. Her writing on art has appeared in ''Art in America'', ''Art International'', ''Art News'', ''BOMB (magazine)'', ''Partisan Review'', and ''Salmagundi''. A collection of her art criticism came out in 1999 entitled, ''Signifying Art: Essays on Art after 1960''. In April 2001, a conference at the University of Pennsylvania was held to compile '' ...
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Cole Swensen
Cole Swensen (born 1955, in Kentfield, California) is an American poet, translator, editor, copywriter, and professor. Swensen was awarded a 2006 Guggenheim Fellowship and is the author of more than ten poetry collections and as many translations of works from the French. She received her B.A. and M.A. from San Francisco State University and a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from the University of California, Santa Cruz, and served as the Director of the Creative Writing Program at the University of Denver. She taught at the Iowa Writers' Workshop at the University of Iowa until 2012 when she joined the faculty of Brown University's Literary Arts Program. Her work is considered Postmodern and post-Language school, though she maintains close ties with many of the original authors from that group (such as Lyn Hejinian, Carla Harryman, Barrett Watten, Charles Bernstein,) as well as poets from all over the US and Europe. Her work is hybrid in nature, sometimes called ''lyric-Languag ...
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Claude Royet-Journoud
Claude Royet-Journoud (born 8 September 1941 in Lyon, France) is a contemporary French poet and artist living in Paris . Overview Royet-Journoud's publications in French include his tetralogy, published between 1972 and 1997: ''Le Renversement'', ''La Notion d'Obstacle'', ''Les Objets contiennent l'infini'', and ''Les Natures indivisibles'' (1972, 1978, 1983, 1997). He was also co-founder & co-editor (with Anne-Marie Albiach and Michel Couturier) of the journal ''Siècle à mains'' (1963–1970). A champion of American poetry since the 1960s, when he translated George Oppen and published John Ashbery and Louis Zukofsky, he has edited (with Emmanuel Hocquard) two anthologies of American poetry, ''21+1: Poètes américains d'aujourd'hui'' (1986) and ''49+1: nouveaux poètes américains'' (1991). He also edited the small journal, "Zuk", in which appeared French translations of works by American poets. Other publications that have appeared in translation include: ''The Crowded Cir ...
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Harry Mathews
Harry Mathews (February 14, 1930 – January 25, 2017) was an American writer, the author of various novels, volumes of poetry and short fiction, and essays. Mathews was also a translator of the French language. Life Born in New York City to an upper-middle-class family, Mathews was educated at private schools there and at the Groton School in Massachusetts, before enrolling at Princeton University in 1947. He left Princeton in his sophomore year for a tour in the United States Navy, during the course of which (in 1949) he eloped with the artist Niki de Saint Phalle, a childhood friend. His military service completed, Mathews transferred to Harvard University in 1950; the couple's first child, a daughter, was born the following year. After Mathews graduated in 1952 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in music, the family moved to Paris, where he continued studies in conducting Conducting is the art of directing a musical performance, such as an orchestral or choral concert. It ...
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Lisa Jarnot
Lisa Jarnot (born 1967) is an American poet. She was born in Buffalo, New York and studied literature at the State University of New York at Buffalo. In 1994 she received an MFA in creative writing from Brown University. She has lived in San Francisco, Boulder, Providence, and London. Since the mid-1990s she has been a resident of New York City. She has taught creative writing and literature at Brooklyn College, Long Island University, Naropa University, and the Poetry Project in New York City. Writing Jarnot has edited two poetry journals (''No Trees'', 1987–1990, and ''Troubled Surfer'', 1991–1992) as well as ''The Poetry Project Newsletter'' and ''An Anthology of New (American) Poetry'' ( Talisman House Publishers, 1997). She is the author of four full-length collections of poetry: ''Some Other Kind of Mission'' (1996), ''Ring of Fire'' (2001), ''Black Dog Songs'' (2003) and ''Night Scenes'' (2008). Her biography of the San Francisco poet Robert Duncan (''Robert Duncan: ...
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