Background
Rudman, Mark was born on December 11, 1948 in New York City. Son of Charles Kenneth and Marjorie Louise (Levy) Rudman.
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In these powerfully conceived and understated poems, Mark Rudman asks how culture is created and shared, and how historical events and figures are known through direct experiences of place. The title Provoked in Venice alludes to the structure of the book, wherein a trip to Italy becomes the catalyst for a meditative view of the convergence of imagination, history, and the 20th-century attempt to recover them both. The narrator enters the maze of Venice like a contemporary Dante guided only by the voice of the "rider"-interlocuter. Rich in allusions to literature, film, and the past, this final volume of the trilogy will engage and sustain all mental travelers.
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In this captivating sequel to his award-winning Rider, Mark Rudman reclaims a sacred space for poetry. The Millennium Hotel is a world of dazzling imitations, a vast casino where personal narrative is recognized as a fiction and death always holds the winning hand. Rudman asks, "How not to be seduced by the new?" as he illustrates the intimate ways in which facade, gender, and memory inform both our private and public realms. Here the interlocutor's voice shifts and freely crosses gender lines, especially in poems about early erotic experience. Mothers, daughters, lovers, and wives are passionately engaged. Its inclusiveness and wide range of tonal registers enable The Millennium Hotel to blend seamlessly the intimate, the social, the comic, and the apocalyptic. The book moves like a series of sonatas, melding childhood, the diaspora, and eros.
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Rudman, Mark was born on December 11, 1948 in New York City. Son of Charles Kenneth and Marjorie Louise (Levy) Rudman.
He graduated from The New School with a Bachelor, and from Columbia University with an Master of Fine Arts.
With Teachers and Writers Collaborative, 1971-1972, Poetry in the Schools Program, 1974-1980. Adjunct lecturer Queens College, City University of New York, Flushing, 1980-1981. Poet-in-residence, associate professor York College, City University of New York, Jamaica, 1984-1988.
Adjunct professor creative writing school general studies Columbia University, since 1988, adjunct professor school of the arts, 1992. Writer-in-residence University Hawaii, Manoa, 1978, Wabash College, 1979, State University of New York, Buffalo, 1979. Lecturer Parsons School Design, 1983.
Poet in residence State University of New York, Purchase, 1991. Lecturer in field; visiting scholar American Academy, Rome, 1997.
(In these powerfully conceived and understated poems, Mark...)
(In this captivating sequel to his award-winning Rider, Ma...)
(In this captivating sequel to his award-winning Rider, Ma...)
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Member International P.E.N., Poetry Society American (member of the Board of Governors 1984-1988), National.Book Critics Circle.
Married Madelaine Bates, December 28, 1977. 1 child, Samuel.