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bibliography plus a long interview w/Elmslie ... Read more

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largest collection yet of his odd, remarkable work ... Read more

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A primo collection by a superbly talented poet
Kenward Elmslie's poetry has won him many fans over the years, but thisbook, adeptly edited by W.C. Bamberger, reveals not only the range but thedepth of a superb talent.What I admire most about Elmslie is the risk anddaring of his poetic project. Sometimes the mood is bleakly sad,sometimes ironic, sometimes sweet, bitter or blue, for here is a poetwilling to engage in history, spectacle, emotion.When William CarlosWilliams defined poetry as the "machine made of words," could he have beenpredicting, like Nostradamus, this mad, clean, incisive orgasmatron? Always he's polyphonous, always musical, on the order of FinnegansWake-volleys of voices, high and demotic, flash through these pages likestrobe light or religious fervor.The magic's in its own making, and inhis readers' relation to an energy and abjection so vital, controlled, soair-borne.Elmslie's new Selected Poems will confirm his standing as oneof the premier postmodern experimentalists of our time. ... Read more

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A collaboration between poet Kenward Elmslie and Trevor Winkfield that responds to life in the post-millennial information age, Cyberspace resounds with wit, satirical energy, and imagination. Elmslie's radical restructuring of language and Winkfield's fantastical collages pull us headfirst into a dreamlike world outside of time where everything seems to happen at once, where the serious and the profound coexist with the absurd and cartoonish, and where distinctions between pattern and noise become blurred. As Elmslie's poetry moves through a maelstrom of buzzwords, jargon and outrageous juxtapositions, Winkfield's accompanying polychromatic images move from abstract forms to what can only be described as exquisite corpses. Drawing on abstract, surrealist and postmodernist traditions in poetry and visual art, but ultimately eclipsing anything that has come before, Cyberspace is a remarkable reading of a society living at the speed of light. It is an irreverent masterpiece. ... Read more

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the American musical injected with surreal pizazz ... Read more

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drama, "an enchantment" (John Ashbery) ... Read more

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Poetry. "One is reminded, not unflatteringly, of Frank O'Hara. His poems find their strength in their uncanny directness, as the poet applies subtle force to allow his opinions full impact. A mellow and yet strong 'voice'." -Stephen Bett, College Review Service. ... Read more

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A classic work of American fiction and a masterpiece of eccentric detail.Praised by John Ashbery as evoking “a rococo world of banality and nightmare which . . . comes in the end to seem like paradise.“ The Orchid Stories presents us with interwoven stories as delicate and exquisite as the flowers for which they’re named, conveying an almost otherworldly beauty. Images, moods, and characters recur with the clarity of a dream: Phil, the little boy gigolo; Mummers and Mummy, who “adopt” him; the alluring Diana Vienna; and the eccentric Dr. Schmidlapp, who plans to capture the rare “Native Innards” orchid precisely at the stroke of midnight. ... Read more

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grand collaborative cabaret work ... Read more

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opera (libretto by Elmslie) on Chekhov's play ... Read more

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Kenward Elmslie's way with words cuts a singular swath through a polymath variety of forms. This collection of poems and ephemera treats language sometimes as paint to be thrown on canvas, sometimes as a series of fascinatingly odd concrete objects-and throughout, Elmslie takes full advantage of the word's status as an infinite well of signification. Elmslie's work navigates between the comic and the serious, between the personal and the political, and between the oblique and the straightforward so deftly that the reader is left breathless. Nite Soil is yet another great book by one of today's leading radical poets. ... Read more

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Poetry. "One of the zaniest 'post-moderns' writing. His use of language, particularly the various jargons of popular culture, is startlingly unique and technically extravagant"-Michael Lally, Book World, Washington Post. ... Read more

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poetry & drawings, reprint of original 1968 book ... Read more

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This anthology presents material selected from the collection of Angel Hair magazine and books edited by Anne Waldman and Lewis Warsh between 1966 and 1978. Included are substantial sections of writing--in some cases entire books--from an impressive range of poets including Clark Coolidge, Alice Notley, Hannah Weiner, Robert Creeley, Bernadette Mayer, Kenward Elmslie, Tom Clark, Joanne Kyger, Bill Berkson, Ted Greenwald, Lorenzo Thomas, John Wieners, Joe Brainard, Ron Padgett, as well as Waldman and Warsh, among many others. From the nascent St. Mark's Poetry Project on the Lower East Side of Manhattan to Bolinas and Boulder, Angel Hair published an idiosyncratic cross-section of innovative writing in distinctive format, becoming one of the longest-lived and most influential publishers on the small press scene. The anthology of literary writings is supplemented with brief memoirs by more than twenty writers, and the book also includes an annotated checklist by Aaron Fischer and Steven Clay that comprises a citation and photograph of each of the approximately eighty books, magazines, broadsides and catalogues issued by the Press. ... Read more

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the poet's early Frank O'Hara award volume ... Read more

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This digital document, covering the life and work of Kenward Elmslie, is an entry from Contemporary Authors, a reference volume published by Thomson Gale. The length of the entry is 1397 words. The page length listed above is based on a typical 300-word page. Although the exact content of each entry from this volume can vary, typical entries include the following information:

• Place and date of birth and death (if deceased)
• Family members
• Education
• Professional associations and honors
• Employment
• Writings, including books and periodicals
• A description of the author's work
• References to further readings about the author