Still [ Life - Softcover

Vas Dias, Robert

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1848611218 ISBN 13: 9781848611214

Publisher: Shearsman Books, 2010

Synopsis

In this generous assembling of work fromthe past ten years, the Anglo-American poet Robert Vas Dias explores meanings and resonances inherent in art and the suggestive implications of objects which both make up the quotidian and help to define us. This is a poetry of 'domestic tranquillity' as well as chaos, of the absurd and the numinous, of the serious and comedic. Vas Dias is the author of eight poetry collections in the USA and UK, and has edited or co-edited four literary journals-two in the USA and two in the UK. His poetry and criticism have appeared in about 100 magazines and journals, as well as in a dozen anthologies. His most recent collection was Leaping Down to Earth, 2008, with images by Stephen Chambers and Tom Hammick. He is a tutor with The Poetry School in London and editor-publisher of Permanent Press.

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About the Author

obert Vas Dias, an Anglo-American born in London, is the author of eight poetry collections in the USA and UK, and has edited or co-edited four literary journals-two in the USA and two in the UK. His first major collection, Speech Acts & Happenings, was published in the USA in 1971, and his influential anthology, Inside Outer Space: New Poems of the Space Age, was published by Doubleday Anchor Books in New York. He was founding director of the Aspen Writers' Workshop in Colorado, was Poet-in-Residence at Michigan's Thomas Jefferson College, where he also founded and directed the National Poetry Festivals, and coordinated two poetry reading series in New York City. His poetry and criticism have appeared in about 100 magazines and journals, as well as in a dozen anthologies. He taught for a number of years at Long Island University in Brooklyn, New York; at New York University; in both the undergraduate and graduate Writing Programs of Antioch University in London; and in the European Division of the University of Maryland. Currently he is a tutor with The Poetry School in London, where he conducts seminars and teaches courses in American poetry, contemporary poetics, and fusions of art and poetry. He has been a consultant and contributor of entries for several editions of the American reference book Contemporary Poets. He writes on book art and artists' books for art publications in the UK. In the UK, he was General Secretary of The Poetry Society, 1975-78, and co-organised two conferences for Gresham College in London, "Sensing the Poem" in 1999, and "Verbal inter Visual" in 2001; he also co-curated the exhibition "Verbal inter Visual" for Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design in London. He is the editor-publisher of Permanent Press.

Edition details

• Publisher: Shearsman Books
• Publication date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1848611218
• ISBN 13: 9781848611214
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 136