THURSDAY
March 15th
6:30pm
The Maude Fife Room
* Read a sample of his work
*This event has passed.
Watch or listen online!
March 15th
6:30pm
The Maude Fife Room
* Read a sample of his work
*This event has passed.
Watch or listen online!
*Judith Butler
**Charles Altieri
**Charles Altieri
Joshua Clover
Lively, stylish and "totally great" poetry from a poet of "fierce power." With graduate poet Colin Dingler
Lively, stylish and "totally great" poetry from a poet of "fierce power." With graduate poet Colin Dingler
An associate professor of Literature and Critical
Theory at UC Davis, Joshua Clover is an
accomplished poet, journalist and cultural critic.
His journalism frequently appears in the New
York Times and he is the poetry editor for the
Village Voice Literary Supplement.
Clover's work has been praised by theorist Judith
Butler for the way that it "brilliantly queries our
historical moment in and as form"* and it is with
an intellectual clarity and linguistic sharpness
that he undertakes these poetic investigations.
Stylish, textured, intricate, irreverant-- Clover's
work is studded with intensity, "social passion"**
and delight. This is what Wallace Stevens would
have called the "never-resting mind" at work,
observing, collating and challenging the trappings
of "late and lost modernity"* and demanding more
from the reader, more from the world.
The Totality for Kids is Clover's second book of poems; he received the Walt Whitman Award for his first collection, Madonna anno domini. The excellence of his work has been recognized with inclusion in the Best American Poetry series, two Pushcart Prizes and a fellowship from the NEA.
The Totality for Kids is Clover's second book of poems; he received the Walt Whitman Award for his first collection, Madonna anno domini. The excellence of his work has been recognized with inclusion in the Best American Poetry series, two Pushcart Prizes and a fellowship from the NEA.
