Porno Diva Numero Uno: An Anonymous Confession - Softcover

Berg, Stephen

Softcover

ISBN 10: 188909739X ISBN 13: 9781889097398

Publisher: Hard Pr Inc, 2000

Synopsis

Porno Diva is a book of desperate longing disgusied by bravado, whimsy and wild intelligence. Berg creates a labyrinth for our agesas Kafka did for his. It is deeply and joyously orginal. Gerald Stern

About this title

From the Publisher:

Porno Diva Numero Uno is a lyrical, witty and iconoclastic prose poem in which the protagonists weave a series of dream-like meditations which soar and dip from the sublime and transcendental to the bathetic and everyday. Hard Press is proud to release another masterwork from one of America's leading poets.

About the Author:

Stephen Berg’s numerous books of poetry include The Daughters, Grief, With Akhmatova at The Black Gates, In it, New & Selected Poems, Crow with No Mouth: Ikkyu, Oblivion and Shaving.

He attended the University of Pennsylvania, Boston University (where he studied with Robert Lowell and worked as a banquet waiter) and the State University of Iowa. From 1959-61 he and his wife lived in Mexico City.

He has taught at Temple University, Princeton, Haverford and Loyola (Baltimore), and is Professor of English at The University of the Arts in Philadelphia.

Berg has been awarded Rockefeller, Guggenheim, NEA, Pew, Dietrich and Ford fellowships and was commissioned by the The Fairmont Park Art Association in 1991 to collaborate with painter Tom Chimes on the public art project Sleeping Woman, a 1200’ long line glazed atop the stone retaining wall along the Schuylkill River.

In 1972 Berg founded The American Poetry Review and since then has been one of its editors. He teaches at The University of the Arts and has published essays on the contemporary artists Sidney Goodman, Tom Chimes, Toshiko Takaezu and Rudi Staffel.

About this edition

• Publisher: Hard Pr Inc
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 188909739X
• ISBN 13: 9781889097398
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 88