CREATIVE WRITING :: anthologies
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New Voices: University and College Prizes, 1989–98
published by American Academy of Poets, 2002
edited by Heather McHugh
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In 1991, I received an Academy of American Poets Prize while attending Brown University. Years later, these poems were selected by Academy Chancellor Heather McHugh, from among ten years of contest winners, to be included in this anthology. (see sample text below)
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"The book price runs parallel to the shelf line. Drawing in charcoal is a past-time in one less twig clasp. Picasso moved just now and said he moved well. A motor reflex would be an appropriate sentence. No more sentences without motors will start this morning in the tiniest temperatures. A sound from over there: ice eye.
Ambulance pushed out of the dankness of the morning blanket cover, left dank. A hunk of fiber managed to work its way up to the last typo. This is better, in the light this long. Please tell me what sort of day this is and if my name has seeds or berries.
I must be silent
so that there is no doubt I am my own parts, that warehouse
with the boats pouring coal on it."
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One Score More
published by Burning Deck, 2001
edited by Alison Bundy, Keith & Rosmarie Waldrop
240 pp., offset, smyth-sewn,
original paperback, ISBN 1-886224-46-3, $18
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This anthology celebrates Burning Deck's 40th anniversary. "For over 30 years, Burning Deck has made available a vast range of experimental and adventurous poetry and prose of unwavering quality, providing a role model for all small presses." --Marc Lowenthal, The Boston Book Review
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Reft and Light
published by Burning Deck, 2000
translated from the German by various American poets
poems, 112 pages, offset, smyth-sewn
ISBN 1-886224-34-X, paper $14
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This book celebrates the work of Austrian writer Ernst Jandl who died in 2000. With wit and humor, his visual and sound poems explore the limits of language. The poems I contributed are not literal translations, but loose imitations that freely expand upon the ideas of Jandl's experiments. (see sample text below)
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"die book hand lung
bie hook land dung
hie look dand bung
lie dook band hung"