Sesshu Foster

Broschiertes Buch

World Ball Notebook

Beschreibung

A genre-breaking adventure: narrative prose poems filled with awe, yearning, acerbic wit, and crystalline observations.

Autor

Sesshu Foster taught composition and literature in East L.A. for over 20 years, and at the University of Iowa, the California Institute for the Arts, and the University of California, Santa Cruz. His work is published in The Oxford Anthology of Modern American Poetry, Language for a New Century: Poetry from the Middle East, Asia and Beyond, and State of the Union: 50 Political Poems. His most recent novel is Eladatl: A History of the East Los Angeles Dirigible Air Transport Lines with Arturo Ernesto Romo, published by City Lights. His previous books include the novel  Atomik Aztex and the poetry collection World Ball Notebook, both with City Lights, as well as City of the Future and City Terrace Field Manual. A celebrated writer, his literary awards are numerous: Sesshu was awarded the American Book Award and the Asian American Literary Award in Poetry for  World Ball Notebook; the Believer Book Award for Atomik Aztex; an American Book Award for Invocation LA: Urban Multicultural Poetry; and finalist for the PEN Center West Poetry Prize, as well as the Paterson Poetry Prize, for City Terrace Field Manual. Sesshu is based in Alhambra, CA.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: City Lights Books
• Seitenzahl: 96
• Erscheinungstermin: Januar 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 210mm x 152mm x 10mm
• Gewicht: 200g
• ISBN-13: 9780872864672
• ISBN-10: 0872864677
• Artikelnr.: 23809201