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Lost & Found: The CUNY Poetics Document Initiative, Series 1 (The CUNY Poetics Document Initiative, 1) - Softcover
Synopsis
Literary Nonfiction. Poetry History & Criticism. Poetics. African & African American Studies. LGBT Studies. Featuring Amiri Baraka, Edward Dorn, Kenneth Koch, Frank O'Hara, Philip Whalen, Robert Creeley, and Muriel Rukeyser. Edited by Claudia Moreno Pisano, Josh Schneiderman, Stefania Heim, Brian Unger, and General Editor Ammiel Alcalay.
LOST & FOUND: THE CUNY POETICS DOCUMENT INITIATIVE publishes unexpected, genre-bending works by important 20th century writers. Unearthed from personal and institutional archives in the United States and abroad, these materials are edited by doctoral students at the Graduate Center, CUNY. SERIES I is a collection of 5 chapbooks that provide access to seminal poetic conversations of the 1950s-70s. Kenneth Koch & Frank O'Hara trade transatlantic confidences even as they create a poetic lexicon for the emerging New York School of poetry. Edward Dorn & Amiri Baraka discuss poetry as political action. Excerpts from the journals of Philip Whalen explore his writing and Zen Buddhist practices, California hikes, and jazz. A heretofore unpublished essay on Darwin by Muriel Rukeyser articulates a juncture of the scientific and literary imaginations. Records of the legendary 1963 Vancouver Poetry Conference include Robert Creeley's Contexts of Poetry and notes by Daphne Marlatt. Edited, annotated, and with accompanying essays, The London Review of Books calls this "a serious and worthy enterprise." Diane di Prima calls the series "a gold mine" and Joanne Kyger writes: "What a brilliant cast of characters. Just exactly what one (myself) would like to read."
SERIES I includes:
Amiri Baraka & Edward Dorn: Selections from the Collected Letters, 1959-1960 (Claudia Moreno Pisano, editor)
The Correspondence of Kenneth Koch & Frank O'Hara: 1955-1956 (Parts I & II) (Josh Schneiderman, editor)
Muriel Rukeyser: Darwin & the Writers (Stefania Heim, editor)
Philip Whalen: Journals 1957-1977: Selections (Parts I & II) (Brian Unger, editor)
The 1963 Vancouver Poetry Conference: Robert Creeley's Contests of Poetry, with selections from Daphne Marlatt's Journal Entries (Ammiel Alcalay, editor)
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About the Author
Ammiel Alcalay grew up in Boston and, as a child, spent time in Gloucester where family friends included Charles Olson and Vincent Ferrini. As a teenager, through the Grolier and Temple Bar Bookshops in Cambridge, he befriended many poets, including John Wieners. Poet, translator, critic, scholar and activist, he teaches at Queens College and the CUNY Graduate Center. His books include SCRAPMETAL (Factory School, 2007); FROM THE WARRING FACTIONS (Beyond Baroque Press, 2002), a book-length poem dedicated to the Bosnian town of Srebrenica; MEMORIES OF OUR FUTURE: SELECTED ESSAYS (City Lights Publishers, 1999); After Jews and Arabs: Remaking Levantine Culture (University of Minnesota Press, 1993); and THE CAIRO NOTEBOOKS (Singing Horse Press, 1993). His translations include SARAJEVO BLUES (City Lights Publishers, 1998) and NINE ALEXANDRIAS (City Lights Publishers, 2003) by the Bosnian poet Semezdin Mehmedinovic, KEYS TO THE GARDEN: NEW ISRAELI WRITING (City Lights Publishers, 11996), and a co-translation (with Oz Shelach), of OUTCAST by Shimon Ballas (City Lights Publishers, 2007). A new book of essays, A Little History, and a collective translation of the Syrian poet Faraj Bayraqdar are forthcoming with Fred Dewey as editor. ISLANDERS, a novel, came out in 2010 (City Lights Publishers). His new selection of poetry, NEITHER WIT NOR GOLD, was published by Ugly Duckling Presse in 2011. Along with Anne Waldman and others, he was one of the initiators of the Poetry Is News Coalition, and organized, with Mike Kelleher and Fred Dewey, the OlsonNow project. Most recently, through the PhD Program in English and the Center for the Humanities at the CUNY Graduate Center, he initiated LOST & FOUND: THE CUNY POETICS DOCUMENT INITIATIVE, a series of student and guest edited archival texts emerging from the New American Poetry.
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