Bob Perelman has been one of the key figures in the
Language Writing movement since its incipience in
the early 1970s. As editor of Hills
magazine, as curator of a long-running
Talks series in the Bay Area, and as the
author of over ten books of poetry, two major
collections of essays on literary culture and
poetics, his stance as a major writer and theorist
is of indisputable importance. His writings reflect
an astute sense of human folly and strong sympathy
for the pathos of the human condition.
Wednesday November 29th
READING BEGINS AT
6:30pm
READING BEGINS AT
6:30pm
The
Maude Fife Room
Q&A
with the author to follow
✒Read a sample of his
work
✒This
event has passed:
Watch or listen
online!
Ten to One: Selected Poems makes available
major work from his first ten books of poetry. His
critical works include The Trouble with
Genius and The Marginalization of
Poetry. Playing Bodies, a mixed media
collaboration between Perelman and the painter
Francie Shaw, was published in 2002. A resident of
the Bay Area from 1976 to 1990, Bob Perelman now
teaches at the University of Pennsylvania.
Bob Perelman will be introduced by UC Berkeley English PhD student, Jasper Bernes.
Bob Perelman will be introduced by UC Berkeley English PhD student, Jasper Bernes.
