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In Poetry (1991) from the University of Houston. He also studied at the University of California, Los Angeles and the University of Massachusetts, Amherst where he met his husband, the artist Christopher Arabadjis.
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In his fifth book of poems, Timothy Liu addresses a tripartite “Thee”: the Divine, the Beloved, and the State. A precarious dance between the spiritual and the material ensues, the lyric poem confronting a consumer culture overrun by rampant lust and greed yet finding itself unable to wholly stand outside of what it critiques. Any consolation found herein is short-lived. Even so, by extending the traditions of lyric poetry forward, these utterances seek to enlarge the conversation between art and life, anticipating whatever commerce the future might yet hold.
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( In Liu's text the ascent, the ecstatic apprehension of ...)
In Liu's text the ascent, the ecstatic apprehension of the divine (he is a religious poet, there are no two ways about it, though perhaps there are twenty) can be effected only by a demonic insistence upon abjection, upon the descent. He shrives himself, and his poems show the marks of the lash--they are the lash--and his vision is naturalized to a degree that would astonish his predecessors, that astonishes us. This is a shocking poetry, and the shock is not of recognition, but of estrangement. It makes an unfamiliar claim upon us, the claim of apostasy. --Richard Howard, from the forward
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Exploring the interlocking forces of sexuality and spirituality, Burnt Offerings continues the trajectory of Liu's first collection of poems, Vox Angelica, which won the Norma Farber First Book Award from the Poetry Society of America. Nominated for a Lambda Book Award in Gay Men's Poetry.
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( Running the gamut from traditional to radical forms, Ti...)
Running the gamut from traditional to radical forms, Timothy Liu’s sixth collection of poems, For Dust Thou Art, continues the trajectory of his previous books but extends his lyrical range. The centerpiece of the volume’s tripartite structure is a meditation on the events surrounding 9/11 and its aftermath. In his poems, Liu explores what a twenty-first century American poetry of witness” might look like and protests the charge that the poetic generation to which Liu belongs is stymied by a kind of jaded amorality. Whether taking on public spectacle or contemplating the fallout of a private life, these meditations move forward and backward through time, seeking spiritual consolation within a material world.
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In Poetry (1991) from the University of Houston. He also studied at the University of California, Los Angeles and the University of Massachusetts, Amherst where he met his husband, the artist Christopher Arabadjis.
He is also the editor of Word of Mouth: An Anthology of Gay American Poetry. Liu received his Bachelor of Arts in English (1989) from Brigham Young University and his Master of Arts Liu is a Professor of English at William Paterson University. He has also taught at Hampshire College, Cornell College, University of California Berkeley, University of North Carolina Wilmington, University of Michigan, Tulane University, and in the Graduate Writing Seminars at Bennington College.
His journals and papers are archived in the Berg Collection at the New York Public Library.
( Exploring the interlocking forces of sexuality and spir...)
( In Liu's text the ascent, the ecstatic apprehension of ...)
( Running the gamut from traditional to radical forms, Ti...)
(In his fifth book of poems, Timothy Liu addresses a tripa...)
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