Poetry. Gillian Conoley has commented that Denise Newman's work is intimate, erotic, pantheistic, metaphysical, then sprinkled with the odd grace and beauty of American colloquialisms. Full of a kind of delightful unrest where 'sky tosses disposition about,' and 'earth is a gentle panting thing to eat,' one wants to live forever in her human-forest, asking with her, 'Couldn't we go on climbing into infinity like lambs quaintly passing time?' At once meticulous and compassionate, minimal and enormous, these finely honed pieces trace the intricacies of a mind truly attending to the world -- Cole Swensen. Newman's lines areminimal in something huge - `great zero at sunset waiting in a long line for a free sample' - Leslie Scalapino.

Author City: SAN FRANCISCO, CA USA

Denise Newman is a poet and translator living in San Francisco. Her translation of The Painted Room by the Danish poet Inger Christensen was published in the fall of 2000 by The Harvill Press, U.K. She is the author of two chapbooks, Why Pear? (Em Press) and Of Later Things Yet to Happen (Meow Press). Her poems have appeared in VOLT, apex of the M, CHAIN, and FIVE FINGERS REVIEW, where she is a staff editor. She has been a Djerassi Resident Artist, and she teaches creative writing at the California College of Arts and at Mills College.

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