Background
Scalapino, Leslie was born on July 25, 1947 in Santa Barbara, California, United States. Daughter of Robert Anthony and Dee (Jessen) Scalapino.
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Zither & Autobiography (Wesleyan Poetry Series)
(Zither & Autobiography is comprised of two parts: the aut...)
Zither & Autobiography is comprised of two parts: the author’s autobiography and a book-length poem entitled "Zither." Both parts of the book are concerned with facts and their undoing. In Autobiography, Scalapino explores her shifting memories of childhood—especially of years spent in Asia—experimenting with the memoir form to explore how a view of one’s own life develops, how "fixed memories move as illusion." Zither opens with a unique narrative that the author describes as "samurai film as Classic Comic of Shakespeare’s King Lear (without using any of Shakespeare’s language, characters or plot)." Creating a complex spatial soundscape, the poem works formally to allow continual change of one’s conceptions while reading. The juxtaposition of the two parts and the connection between them is "the anarchist moment...disjunction itself," a key concept in much of Scalapino’s work. This vivid book reveals in every thought-sparking section just why Scalapino has been hailed by Library Journal as "one of the most unique and powerful writers at the forefront of American literature."
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Green and Black: Selected Writings
(Poetry. Prose. Widely identified as one of the most accom...)
Poetry. Prose. Widely identified as one of the most accomplished innovative writers in America, Leslie Scalapino has received both the American Book Award from the Before Columbus Foundation and the Poetry Center Award from San Francisco State University. She is the founding editor of O Books, in Oakland, California. GREEN AND BLACK: SELECTED WRITINGS brings together representative works and passages from both her poetry and prose including HOW PHENOMENA APPEAR TO UNFOLD; WAY; THE RETURN OF PAINTING; THE PEARL, AND ORION: A TRILOGY; CROWD AND NOT EVENING OR LIGHT; and others. "What makes this writing go is an incredible ease. A sense of a text that is capable of breathing"--Village Voice.
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R-Hu
(Poetry. Author of eighteen books of poetry, Leslie Scalap...)
Poetry. Author of eighteen books of poetry, Leslie Scalapino plays with perspective in this innovative collection of prose poems. Shifts in viewpoint enlarge perspective, bear witness to a vast world; it is the poetry of possibility: Yet one figure sits on the huge lit green floor, stripped to the waist with his arms raised. The immense luminous billowed cloud sky is passing over him. Or Atlantis, the green floor flat lit is passing by its roof. Horses run on the floor. Recent titles by Leslie Scalapino available from SPD are THE PUBLIC WORLD/SYNTACTICALLY IMPERMANENCE and RETURN OF PAINTING/PEARL/ONION.
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Floats Horse-Floats or Horse-Flows
(Fiction. Poetry. Cross-Genre. Slim, but with as many wild...)
Fiction. Poetry. Cross-Genre. Slim, but with as many wildly disparate imaginative scenes and situations as a massive Pynchon novel--miners, polar bears, insurgents sweeping the desert in Toyota pickups, a detective on the trail of illegal fur traders, Venus Williams' deconstructed forehand, wild horses, blooming chrysanthemums, tadpoles eating corpses in the Euphrates, and so much more--Leslie Scalapino's FLOATS HORSE-FLOATS OR HORSE-FLOWS is a startlingly beautiful, politically engaged, poetic novel. Narrative moments arrive out of inchoate states--an alexia where unknown words create a future--and the reader is continually and unexpectedly moved by the buoyancy and breathtaking velocity of Leslie Scalapino's language. "This is a jewel book that has come out of the spagyric hinterlands of purest imagination, where it has lain for an immeasurable time alongside Burroughs's Cities of the Red Night, Hans Arp's poetry, Monkey's Journey to the West, and Mark Twain's Mysterious Stranger--and it blows with the elegance of a horse--or a wolf...Virginia Woolf!"--Michael McClure.
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that they were at the beach (Aeolotropic Series) by Scalapino, Leslie (1992) Paperback
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First Edition
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that they were at the beach (Aeolotropic Series)
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Book by Scalapino, Leslie
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Crowd and Not Evening or Light by Scalapino, Leslie (1992) Paperback
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The Front Matter, Dead Souls (Wesleyan Poetry Series)
(Leslie Scalapino is widely regarded as one of the best av...)
Leslie Scalapino is widely regarded as one of the best avant-garde writers in America today. This extraordinary new book is essay-fiction-poetry, an experiment in form, “a serial novel for publication in the newspaper” that collapses the distinction between documentary and fiction. Loosely set in Los Angeles, the book scrutinizes our image-making, producing extreme and vivid images-hyena, Muscle Beach in Venice, the Supreme Court, subway rides-in order for them to be real. Countering contemporary trends toward interiority, Scalapino’s work constitutes a unique effort to “be” objectively in the world. The writing is an action, a dynamic push to make intimacy in the public realm. She does not distinguish between poetry and “real events”: her writing is analogous to Buddhist notions of dreaming one is a butterfly, and becoming aware that actually being the butterfly is as real as dreaming it.
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(The Front Matter, Dead Souls) Author: Leslie Scalapino published on (March, 1996)
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How Phenomena Appear to Unfold
(Literary Nonfiction. New and Expanded Edition. "In 'Eco-l...)
Literary Nonfiction. New and Expanded Edition. "In 'Eco-logic in Writing,' one of many brilliant essay-talks in this volume, Leslie Scalapino asks, 'Seeing the the moment of, or at the time of, writing, what difference does one's living make?' What more crucial question for those concered not only with writing but with poethics: composing words into a socially conscious wager. For Scalapino the essay is a poetic act; the poetic act, essay. It's in that combination that her textual eros—the lush beauty of it!—could reject aesthetic purity and risk the rawness of genuinely new thought, touching what she called 'the rim of occurring.' 'Writing on rim' is a celebration of the wondrous present, but requires agonistic struggle with the ugly—poverty, war, institutional brutality, racism, sexism, homophobia. Scalapino's Steinian strategy of recomposing the vision of one's times, 'altering oneself and altering negative social formation,' is her artfully problematized project of writing ourselves into a better future. With compassion and humor, Scalapino was indeed living on the rim of occurrence. That is the living in the writing that produced this work—its fundamental optimism and ebullient credo: 'The future creates the past'"—Joan Retallack.
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The Return of Painting, The Pearl, and Orion: A Trilogy
(Poetry. Works by Leslie Scalapino, frequently recognized ...)
Poetry. Works by Leslie Scalapino, frequently recognized as one of the most innovative writers in American and author of such noted books as ORCHID JETSUM and THE TANGO. "A terrific book. Edges of meaning and relationship become here the intensive ground of their endlessly volatile statement. So that. As if. It were. Leslie Scalapino thinks the so-called world as real, and so it is, each instance. Each instance in place." - Robert Creeley
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Objects in the Terrifying Tense Longing from Taking Place
(Literary Nonfiction. "Leslie Scalapino's meticulous commi...)
Literary Nonfiction. "Leslie Scalapino's meticulous commitment to understanding certain writings has resulted in this wonderful book. It proposes that such an understanding does not fix ideas or limit the attention. Rather 'to understand' gives one access to perpetually gliding present--an enormous guided moment of mobile thought. This moment--or what she calls 'reality'--is the realm of understanding, and it is also the only grounds for it. OBJECTS IN THE TERRIFYING TENSE/LONGING FROM TAKING PLACE is a moment of reading, spectacular, in place and with momentum"--Lyn Hejinian.
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(Zither and Autobiography ) Author: Leslie Scalapino May-2003
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Considering How Exaggerated Music Is
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Orchid Jetsam
(Prose. Subtitled "A Detective Novel Series," ORCHID JETSA...)
Prose. Subtitled "A Detective Novel Series," ORCHID JETSAM includes two closely related mysteries, "Orchid Jetsam" and "Clear Land." In the first, San Francisco homicide detective Grace Abe - inhabited by the ghost of a U.S. Marine who had been an undercover assassin - runs as 'someone else' within her own frame in public space where people are becoming ill in crowds. The epidemic, which at first appears as much psychic as physical, is caused by hemlock spread in food and in the public transit system. Detective Abe is addicted to a drug whose effect is a clear elation as she running. Biographical information about Dee Goda is not available. However, readers of the widely admired Leslie Scalapino, may suspect that she had something to do with the writing. Of the many titles by Leslie Scalapino's available from SPD - the mostly recent are R-HU and THE PUBLIC WORLD/ SYNTATICALLY IMPERMANENCE.
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Objects in the Terrifying Tense Longing from Taking Place by Leslie Scalapino (1-Jun-1993) Paperback
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The Return of Painting, The Pearl, and Orion: A Trilogy by Scalapino, Leslie (1997) Paperback
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Crowd and Not Evening or Light
(Poetry. " Leslie Scalapino is a stunningly original write...)
Poetry. " Leslie Scalapino is a stunningly original writer. Poised on an edge between space and claustrophobia, this poet bears stark witness to the broken narratives of thousands dead or off shore. CROUD AND NOT EVENING OR LIGHT scatters literary criticism, drama and the photographic index across a wilderness of everyday language like love"-Susan Howe.
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How Phenomena Appear to Unfold by Scalapino, Leslie (2011) Paperback
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Leslie Scalapino
Edit ProfileEducation
Bachelor, Reed College Master of Arts, University of California, Berkeley.
Career
Co-publisher O Books, 1986-2010.
Achievements
Works
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Zither & Autobiography (Wesleyan Poetry Series)
(Zither & Autobiography is comprised of two parts: the aut...)
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The Front Matter, Dead Souls (Wesleyan Poetry Series)
(Leslie Scalapino is widely regarded as one of the best av...)
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that they were at the beach (Aeolotropic Series)
(Book by Scalapino, Leslie)
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How Phenomena Appear to Unfold
(Literary Nonfiction. New and Expanded Edition. "In 'Eco-l...)
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Objects in the Terrifying Tense Longing from Taking Place
(Literary Nonfiction. "Leslie Scalapino's meticulous commi...)
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that they were at the beach (Aeolotropic Series) by Scalapino, Leslie (1992) Paperback
(First Edition)
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Floats Horse-Floats or Horse-Flows
(Fiction. Poetry. Cross-Genre. Slim, but with as many wild...)
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Green and Black: Selected Writings
(Poetry. Prose. Widely identified as one of the most accom...)
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R-Hu
(Poetry. Author of eighteen books of poetry, Leslie Scalap...)
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The Return of Painting, The Pearl, and Orion: A Trilogy
(Poetry. Works by Leslie Scalapino, frequently recognized ...)
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Crowd and Not Evening or Light
(Poetry. " Leslie Scalapino is a stunningly original write...)
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Orchid Jetsam
(Prose. Subtitled "A Detective Novel Series," ORCHID JETSA...)
- The Woman Who Could Read the Minds of Dogs.
- O. And other poems.
- The Front Matter, Dead Souls (Wesleyan Poetry Series) by Leslie Scalapino (1996-01-15)
- Crowd and Not Evening or Light by Scalapino, Leslie (1992) Paperback
- (The Front Matter, Dead Souls) Author: Leslie Scalapino published on (March, 1996)
- How Phenomena Appear to Unfold by Leslie Scalapino (2011-05-15)
- (Zither and Autobiography ) Author: Leslie Scalapino May-2003
- Considering How Exaggerated Music Is
- Objects in the Terrifying Tense Longing from Taking Place by Leslie Scalapino (1-Jun-1993) Paperback
- The Return of Painting, The Pearl, and Orion: A Trilogy by Scalapino, Leslie (1997) Paperback
- How Phenomena Appear to Unfold by Scalapino, Leslie (2011) Paperback
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Zither & Autobiography (Wesleyan Poetry Series)
Connections
Married Wesley St. John, 1968 (divorced). Married Tom White, 1987.
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March 28, 2010 (aged 62) -
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American