A weblog focused on contemporary poetry and poetics.
Charles Bernstein & Yunte Huang
discussing Charlie Chan:
The Untold Story of the Honorable Detective
& His Rendezvous with American History
at the Asian American Writers’ Workshop
Labels: Film, history, Talks, Yunte Huang
2017
Ron Silliman was born in Pasco,
Washington, although his
parents stayed there just
long enough for his mother
to learn that one could
step on field mice while
walking barefoot through the
snow to the outhouse, and
for his father to walk away
from a plane crash while
smuggling alcohol into
a dry county. Silliman
has written and edited over 30 books,
most recently Revelator from BookThug,
and had his poetry
and criticism translated into 14
languages. Silliman was a 2012
Kelly Writers House Fellow
at the University of Pennsylvania, and
the 2010 recipient of the
Levinson Prize, from the
Poetry Foundation. His sculpture
Poetry (Bury Neon) is permanently
on display in the
transit center of Bury, Lancashire,
and he has a plaque in the walk
dedicated to poetry in his home
town of Berkeley, although
he now lives in Chester County, PA.
In 2015, Silliman taught at
Haverford College & the
University of Pennsylvania
& was writer in residence
at the Gloucester Writers Center.
NB: This blog receives a steady stream of review copies
of books of poetry, fiction, criticism & theory. While less than ten
percent of these books are ultimately reviewed here, it should be presumed that
any book review on this weblog is of a volume originally obtained as a review copy.
© 2002 - 2018 by Ron Silliman
