Selected Poems

Michael Gottlieb

ISBN 10: 1946104299 / ISBN 13: 9781946104298

Editore: Chax Press, US, 2021

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• Titolo: Selected Poems
• Editore: Chax Press, US
• Data di pubblicazione: 2021
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 1946104299
• ISBN 13: 9781946104298
• Rilegatura: Paperback
• Condizione: New

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"At last! The essential Michael Gottlieb in one volume. For decades, Gottlieb's publications and live readings have been accruing admirers from vanguardist writing communities nationwide. From his beginnings as a lexical atomicist to his later staged documentary pieces, this extensive collection will prove Gottlieb to be one of the most forensic poets of our time. Whether closely examining the radical uncertainty of privately lived phenomenon or tracking the nano-moments of accidental public encounters, these works brim with a wit and quirkiness that's sure to thrill brow-furrowed scholars, roustabout flaneurs, and solitary text trippers in equal measure."-- Rodrigo Toscano

"With a sardonic, razor-edged critique, Michael Gottlieb takes to task (and to heart) the irritants and menaces of quotidian late-capital social life. His forte is to lay bare and examine human fallibility, vulnerability and instability. A momentary clearing is created post-fallout where the ultimate pathos of subjectivity and ego have room to transform. The stakes are high. What does it mean to be a poet, citizen, resident of planet Earth? Throughout his work, he probes all psychic and theoretical valances. Gottlieb's oeuvre is myriad--the forms the writings take diverse. His Selected Poems spans from late 1970's work based on chance operations, to recent collaged writings. Now is the necessary hour to challenge the status quo, something Gottlieb has been doing conscientiously for half a century. I am awed by the substantive meanings that reverberate sonically throughout this collection."
-- Brenda Iijima

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Michael Gottlieb is a poet and the author of twentythree books of poetry, essays and memoir. His latest book is Collected Memoirs, published by Chax Press in November, 01/01/2023. Collected Memoirs is published as the third volume in a uniform edition by Chax, joining Collected Essays (March 01/01/2023) and Selected Poems, (01/01/2021). Other recent titles include Mostly Clearing (Roof, 01/01/2019) What We Do: Essays for Poets (01/01/2016, Chax Press), I Had Every Intention (01/01/2014, Faux Editions), Dear All (01/01/2013, Roof Books), Letters to A Middle Aged Poet (01/01/2012, Otoliths), The Dust (2011, Roof Books), Memoir and Essay (01/01/2010, Faux/Other). A firstgeneration member of the Language Poetry school, he helped edit one of its foundational magazines, Roof. He was also the publisher of Case/Casement Books (19811999) and started the Last Tuesday multimedia performance series at La MaMa in NYC in the 1980s. A number of his works have been adopted for the stage, notably at the Poetry Project at St. Mark’ s in New York City. In Septemer 2011, the director Fiona Templeton staged THE DUST, her dramatization of his long 9/11 poem of the same name, at St. Mark’ s to mark the tenth anniversary of the attacks on the World Trade Center. In November 01/01/2019, coinciding with the publication of Mostly Clearing, his sixth book from Roof Books, the Poetry Project produced the play IS THIS CLEAR ENOUGH?, created and directed by Gené e Coreno, based on Mostly Clearing. In November 01/01/2023 the Poetry Project served for the third time as the producer for a dramatization of his work, presenting, in the church’ s Sanctuary, I AM ANGRY AT A FORCE I CANNOT SEE: BASED ON THE POETRY OF MICHAEL GOTTLIEB, a staged adaptation of ‘ The Voices’ , his long poem about Covid and NYC, and ‘ The Dust’ . This production was directed by Chana Porter, with sound and music by Rohan Chander, video by ray ferreira and was made possible with the generous support of the AxeHoughton Foundation. The performances coincided with the publication of his Collected Memoirs. Ron Silliman called ‘ The Dust,’ when it first appeared in print in 2003, “ the first great poetic work to emerge from the trauma of September 11.” Eileen Myles has written that the body of Gottlieb’ s work focuses "much like the narrator does in Robert Musil’ s epic the 'Man Without Qualities,’ on the difficult moment in which one faces one’ s culture and understands… what it is to be a man." His firstpublished memoir, Memoir and Essay, was described by the poet Elizabeth Fodaski as “ doing for New York in the 70s what A Movable Feast did for Paris in the 20s.” Gottlieb was born in the Bronx and grew up in Westchester County, NY. He graduated from Bennington College where he studied poetry and painting. He’ s worked for a private detective agency and in business affairs for Warner Bros. Inc. He founded a start up and most recently served as Vice President, Digital Insight and Chief Research Expert for the global software company SAP. He divides his time between New York City and Connecticut.