Background
Halperin, Mark Warren was born on February 19, 1940 in New York City. Son of George Waldo and Minna (Scherzer) Halperin.
(Mark Halperin recovers forgotten moments and bygone peopl...)
Mark Halperin recovers forgotten moments and bygone people in these poems of place and memory. Through personal and historical recollections he fashions images so alive and concrete we regret ever having overlooked them. "We should have missed / nothing. But to the west, past the mountains, / is a town with fish in the streets. Who could imagine / the yellow and orange dots on their backs? Imagine / missing that." Loneliness, lack, and wariness permeate these richly textured memories. Potiphar's wife, Zuleika, recounts her dreams but falters, unable to trust even her own words. "Part of me would fall to her knees in belief / but she is heavy.... / She / draws her gown over her knees, / the cruel curve of her mouth." She is saved from obscurity but not before exposing the unreliability of memories. Seductive fantasies tempt the narrator's troubled spirit only to confirm that they are moments long past or impossible. "The weight on my chest is air's / but monstrously heavy."
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Halperin, Mark Warren was born on February 19, 1940 in New York City. Son of George Waldo and Minna (Scherzer) Halperin.
Bachelor, Bard College, 1960. Master of Fine Arts in Poetry, University Iowa, 1966.
Junior physicist, Machlet laboratories, Inc., Stamford, Connecticut, 1960-1962;
electron microscope technical, Rockefeller Institute, New York City, 1963-1964;
instructor English, Control Washington U., Ellensburg, since 1966;
Professor of English, Control Washington U., Ellensburg, since 1990. Visiting Professor of English U. Arizona, 1976-1977. Exchange Professor of English Schimane U., Matsue, Japan, 1986-1987.
Lecturer English Estonian Institute Human Science, 1990, Moscow State Linguistic U., Russia, 1991.
(Mark Halperin recovers forgotten moments and bygone peopl...)
(Port Townsend, WA: Copper Canyon Press, 1982. 5.5"x9" tal...)
Married Barbara Scott, July 15, 1966. 1 child, Noah Corey.