Poetry. "In For A New Novel Robbe-Grillet has written that in the sort of new writing he is proposing the author totally proclaims his need of the reader's cooperation as an 'active, conscious, creative assistance.' What he asks of the reader is no longer to receive readymade a world completed, full, closed upon itself, but on the contrary to participate in a creation, to invent, in his or her turn, the work and the world and thus learn to invent one's own life. This begins to describe the process of Susan Gevirtz's work. She is a writer of great seriousness, intuition and imagination who asks you at each turn to participate in the reinvention of a language"--Kathleen Fraser.

Author City: SAN FRANCISCO, CA USA

Susan Gevirtz's books include AERODROME ORION & STARRY MESSENGER (Kelsey Street Press, 2010), Broadcast (Trafficker Press, 2009), THRALL (Post Apollo, 2007), Omatic & After St. John (dpress, 2006), HOURGLASS TRANSCRIPTS (Burning Deck, 2001), SPELT, collaboration with Myung Mi Kim (a+bend press, 1999), BLACK BOX CUTAWAY (Kelsey Street Press, 1999), Prosthesis : : Caesarea (Potes and Poets, 1994; reissue Little Red Leaves, 2009), Taken Place (Reality Street, 1993), LINEN MINUS (Avenue B, 1992), Domino: point of entry (Leave Books, 1992), Korean and Milkhouse (ABACUS, Potes and Poets, 1991), and the critical study Narrative's Journey: The Fiction and Film Writing of Dorothy Richardson (Peter Lang, 1996). Many essays have appeared in literary magazines and scholarly journals. She was an Assistant Professor for ten years at Sonoma State University and now teaches in the MFA in Poetry Program at Mills College. With Greek poet Siarita Kouka she runs The Paros Symposium, on Paros island, an annual meeting of poets and translators from Greece and the United States.

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