Poetry Pamphlets 1-4

About Bernadette MayerEliot WeinbergerLydia DavisSusan HoweSylvia Legris

Lydia Davis is the author of one novel and seven story collections. Her collection Varieties of Disturbance: Stories was a finalist for the 2007 National Book Award. She is the recipient of a MacArthur fellowship the American Academy of Arts and Letters Award of Merit Medal and was named a Chevalier of the Order of the Arts and Letters by the French government for her fiction and her translations of modern writers including Maurice Blanchot Michel Leiris and Marcel Proust. Lydia Davis is the winner of the 2013 Man Booker International Prize. Eliot Weinbergers books of literary essays include Karmic Traces An Elemental Thing The Ghosts of Birds and Angels & Saints. His political writings are collected in What I Heard About Iraq and What Happened Here: Bush Chronicles. The author of a study of Chinese poetry translation 19 Ways of Looking at Wang Wei he is a translator of the poetry of Bei Dao and the editor of The New Directions Anthology of Classical Chinese Poetry. He was formerly the general editor of the series Calligrams: Writings from and on China and the literary editor of the Murty Classical Library of India. Among his many translations of Latin American poetry and prose are The Poems of Octavio Paz Pazs In Light of India Vicente Huidobros Altazor Xavier Villaurrutias Nostalgia for Death and Jorge Luis Borges Seven Nights and Selected Non-Fictions. He has been publishing with New Directions since 1975. Susan Howe has won the Bollingen Prize the Frost Medal and the Griffin Award. She is the author of such seminal works as Debths That This The Midnight My Emily Dickinson The Quarry and The Birthmark. Called a consummate poet by Robert Creeley Bernadette Mayer was born in Brooklyn New York in 1945. A most prolific poet her first book was published at the age of twenty-three. Many texts later she continues to write progressive poetry from her home in East Nassau New York. For many years Mayer lived and worked on the Lower East Side of Manhattan where she was the Director of St. Marks Poetry Project from 1980-1984. Bernadette Mayer has received grants and awards from PEN American Center The Foundation for Contemporary Performance Art the NEA The Academy of American Poets and The American Academy of Arts and Letters. Sylvia Legris was born in Winnipeg Manitoba. Her collection Garden Physic was chosen as one of the Best Poetry Books of the Year by The (London) Times and CBC/Radio-Canada. Her other poetry collections include The Hideous Hidden Pneumatic Antiphonal and Nerve Squall winner of the Griffin Poetry Prize and the Pat Lowther Award. She lives in Saskatoon Saskatchewan.