Paul Vangelisti
Border Music ISBN: 978-1-58498-120-6, paper, $16.95 |
But if seemingly willful obscurity is often a deterrent in reading or viewing work from any avant-garde, Vangelisti's poems are replete with a sustained clarity that invites us to savor these moments without being penalized for letting go of that which seems inaccessible. — Bill Mohr, Chicago Review Paul Vangelisti is the author of some twenty books of poetry, as well as a noted translator from Italian. From 1971-1982 he was co-editor, with John McBride, of the literary magazine Invisible City; from 1993-2002, edited Ribot, the annual report of the College of Neglected Science; and the literary tabloid or, from 2009-2014. In 2015 he edited Amiri Baraka’s posthumous S.O.S., Poems, 1961-2014 for Grove Atlantic. |
