Boulder, CO
Born 1945, Millville, New Jersey
I am concerned with articulating the imagination and experience of the world as poet, performer, cultural activist through language, investigative poetics, documentation,vocalization, text. "It sounds it" or the sense of "ti bot" (from Indonesian aesthetics), to sound the gong, sets the tone. But there is active and crafted attention to the page -- as seed syllable, rune, projective imagination, amalgam of attention. Way beyond speech/content. An Indra's net of prosodies. The work is often activated thru being sounded. It fiercely and frequently vocalizes itself against injustice, subjugation of women, degradation of the planet. Texts, which in some cases could be read as "modal structures", are numerous and ongoing.
I am continuing the huge tapestry of the Iovis: All Is Full of Jove epic project, a rhizomic poem over 700 pages that takes on the over-all question of "patriarchy" as theme. I am now working on Book III. Embed research, dream, dialogue, musical and visual strategies, other languages and lore.
Travel to the Buddhist stupa Borobudur in Java has set in motion a book length piece entitled Structure of the World Compared to a Bubble. It resonates with various architectural concerns of the stupa as well as the mind architecture of Buddhist philosophy. The stupa with its many reliefs is a "book of enlightenment."
1967 B.A., Bennington College
1991 Director, Schule fur Dichtung, Vienna
1974-- Co-founder (with Allen Ginsberg), Distinguished Professor of Poetics, and Artistic Director, The Summer Writing Program, The Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics, Naropa Institute, Boulder, CO
1966-78 Assistant Director to Director, The Poetry Project, St. Mark's Church, New York, NY
Collaborations with Elizabeth Murray, Red Grooms, Yvonne Jacquette, Joe Brainard, Susan Rothenberg, Richard Tuttle, George Schneeman, and others.
2004 War Crime. Salt Lake City: Elik Press.
2002 [THINGS] SEEN / UNSEEN, Belladona 26. Brooklyn, NY: Belladona Books.
2001 Vow to Poetry: Essays, Interviews, & Manifestos. Minneapolis: Coffee House Press.
2001 Ed. With Lewis Warsh, Angel Hair Sleeps with a Boy in My Head: The Angel Hair Anthology. New York: Granary Books.
2001 Alchemical Elegy: Selected Songs and Writings, Fast Speaking Music, Naropa, CD.
2000 Marriage: A Sentence. New York: Penguin Poets.
1996 Fast Speaking Woman. San Francisco: City Lights Press.
1993 Iovis: All Is Full of Love, Book II. Minneapolis, Coffee House Press.
1992 Ed., Out of This World: An Anthology of the St. Mark's Poetry Project 1966-1991. New York: Crown.
2001 Fellow, Civitella Ranieri Center, Umbertide, Italy
2001 Shelley Memorial Award for Poetry
2001 Winner, Heavyweight Championship Poetry Bout, Taos, New Mexico
