Leslie Scalapino
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Leslie Scalapino | |
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| Occupation | poet |
| Bildung | M.A., University of California at Berkeley |
| Years active | 1974–2010 |
Leslie Scalapino (born July 25, 1947, died May 28, 2010) was a United States poet, experimental prose writer, playwright, essayist, and editor, sometimes grouped in with the Language poets. A longtime resident of California's Bay Area, she earned an M.A. in English from the University of California at Berkeley.
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Awards
Among her works, Scalapino is the author of way (North Point Press, 1988), a long poem which won the Poetry Center Award, the Lawrence Lipton Prize, and the American Book Award.
Other works
Other well-known works of hers include The Return of Painting, The Pearl, and Orion : A Trilogy (North Point, 1991; Talisman, 1997), Dahlia's Iris: Secret Autobiography and Fiction (FC2), Sight (a collaboration with Lyn Hejinian; Edge Books), and, most recently, Zither and Autobiography (Wesleyan University Press). Her poetry has been widely anthologized, including appearances in the influential Postmodern American Poetry and Poems for the Millennium anthologies, as well as the popular Best American Poetry and Pushcart Prize series anthologies, and her work has been the subject of a special "critical feature" appearing in an issue of the online poetry journal How2.
As of 2010, she ran the Oakland small press O Books and taught at the summer MFA program at Bard College.
References
- ^ a blurb on Scalapino's It's go in horizontal, Selected Poems 1974-2006
Selected Bibliography
Poetry
- O and Other Poems, Sand Dollar Press, 1976
- The Woman who Could Read the Minds of Dogs, Sand Dollar Press, 1976
- Instead of an Animal, Cloud Marauder Press, 1978
- This eating and walking is associated all right, Tombouctou, 1979
- Considering how exaggerated music is, North Point Press, 1982
- that they were at the beach — aeolotropic series, North Point Press, 1985
- way, North Point Press, 1988
- Crowd and not evening or light, O Books, 1992
- Sight (with Lyn Hejinian), Edge Books, 1999
- New Time, Wesleyan University Press, 1999
- The Tango, (with Marina Adams), Granary Press, 2001
- Day Ocean State of Stars' Night: Poems & Writings 1989 & 1999-2006, Green Integer (E-L-E-PHANT Series), 2007
- It's go in horizontal, Selected Poems 1974-2006, UC Press, Berkeley, 2008
Fiction
- The Return of Painting, DIA Foundation, 1990
- The Return of Painting, The Pearl, and Orion : A Trilogy, North Point, 1991; Talisman, 1997
- Defoe, Sun & Moon Press, 1995
- The Front Matter, Dead Souls, Wesleyan University Press, 1996
- Orchid Jetsam, Tuumba, 2001
- Dahlia's Iris — Secret Autobiography and Fiction, FC2, November 2003
Inter-genre writings
- The Public World / Syntactically Impermanence, Wesleyan University Press, 1999
- How Phenomena Appear To Unfold , Potes & Poets Press, 1991
- Objects in the Terrifying Tense / Longing from Taking Place, Roof Books, 1994
- Green and Black, Selected Writings , Talisman Publishers, 1996
- R-hu, Atelos Press, 2000
- Zither and Autobiography, Wesleyan, 2003
- Floats Horse-Floats or Horse-Flows, Starcherone Books, 2010
Plays
- Goya's L.A., a play, Potes & Poets Press, 1994 (music by Larry Ochs)
- Stone Marmalade (the Dreamed Title), (with Kevin Killian) Singing Horse Press, 1996
- The Weatherman Turns Himself In, Zasterle Press, Spain 1999
External links
- O Books, Scalapino-founded small press
- Scalapino's Author Page at the Electronic Poetry Center
- 'The Tango' reviewed by Melissa Flores-Bórquez at poetry mag "Intercapillary Space"
- Disbelief: History/Memory/Body: Language is the Trace of Being written for the Segue Panel "Language Poetry and the Body", May 12, 2007
- It’s go in horizontal by Leslie Scalapino A review by John Herbert Cunningham
- The Dihedrons Gazelle-Dihedrals Zoom: Introductory note and chapters 6–12 Writes Scalapino in the "Introductory note":
The Dihedrons Gazelle-Dihedrals Zoom was written by leafing through Random House Webster's Unabridged Dictionarychoosing words at random by process of alexia, not as mental disorder but word-blindness: trance-like stream overriding meaning, choice, and inhibition.