Please join us at Bridge Street Books
SUNDAY, MAY 27th at 7 PM
RON SILLIMAN
& TOM MANDEL
A reading and publication celebration.
Ron Silliman's THE AGE OF HUTS (COMPLEAT) was recently published by The
University of California Press. Among his twenty-six books to date are ABC,
PARADISE, LIT, WHAT, THE NEW SENTENCE (criticism), DEMO TO INK, TONER,
WOUNDWOOD, and UNDER ALBANY (memoir). He also edited the seminal anthology IN
THE AMERICAN TREE. Silliman's notoriety has grown considerably since 2002, due
in large part to his popular and controversial weblog, Silliman's Blog (
http://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/) -- arguably the most influential
English-language blog on the web devoted to contemporary poetry and poetics. In
early February 2007, Silliman's Blog surpassed 1,000,000 hits.
Tom Mandel's most recent book is TO THE COGNOSCENTI from Atelos. His twelve
volumes of poetry include REALISM, FOUR STRANGE BOOKS, THE PROSPECT OF RELEASE,
ABSENCE SENSORIUM (a collaboration with Daniel Davidson), and ANCESTRAL CAVE. He
studied at The University of Chicago with Hannah Arendt and has lived in New
York, Paris, San Francisco, Washington, DC, and now resides in Lewes, Delaware.
In the late seventies Mandel and Silliman co-curated a reading series at the
Grand Piano, a coffee house in San Francisco's Haight-Ashbury neighborhood.
Several members of that community-- Bob Perelman, Lyn Hejinian, Ted Pearson, Rae
Armantrout, Kit Robinson, Carla Harryman, Barrett Watten, Mandel, and Silliman,
are writing "an ongoing experiment in collective autobiography" called The Grand
Piano. The first two volumes have recently appeared.
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WASHINGTON, DC
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