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Poetry. Asian and Asian American Studies. PETROGLYPH AMERICANA is a book-length poem that careens across landscapes of the American West and resonates with Scott Ezell's dozen years in Asia. By turns narrative and lyrical, PETROGLYPH AMERICANA is a journey through Death Valley and Las Vegas, through the Great Basin and San Francisco's administrative assistance industry, and through the history of the Gold Rush and an LA traffic jam--all with reflections from Asian landscapes, cultures, and poetry. PETROGLYPH AMERICANA embraces the lust, freedom, exuberance, and folly of America, distilling a geographic, cultural, and ecological sense of place.…mehr

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Poetry. Asian and Asian American Studies. PETROGLYPH AMERICANA is a book-length poem that careens across landscapes of the American West and resonates with Scott Ezell's dozen years in Asia. By turns narrative and lyrical, PETROGLYPH AMERICANA is a journey through Death Valley and Las Vegas, through the Great Basin and San Francisco's administrative assistance industry, and through the history of the Gold Rush and an LA traffic jam--all with reflections from Asian landscapes, cultures, and poetry. PETROGLYPH AMERICANA embraces the lust, freedom, exuberance, and folly of America, distilling a geographic, cultural, and ecological sense of place.
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Scott Ezell was born in Berkeley, California. He received a BA in English from UC Davis, studied Chinese at the University of California at Berkeley, then entered the MA program in Comparative Literature at the University of Washington. In 1992 he left graduate school to study Chinese language and literature in Taiwan, and lived a dozen years in Asia, working as a writer, editor, radio host, street musician, recording artist, and record producer. He also traveled widely in China, India, Japan, Indonesia, and other countries. Scott Ezell lives in Seattle and Hanoi. In addition to writing the poem-cycle Hanoi Rhapsodies, he has recently performed improvised music with Vietnamese composer Vu Nhat Tan and recorded the album Where Will You Go When Your Heart Is Free, a collection of love songs.