Poetry. Ezra Pound once said that every American poet is arguing with Whitman, and his response was The Cantos. Williams praised and lamented our cities in Paterson, while Olson extended the geography in The Maximus Poems. Now, the powerfully energetic performance poet, Anne Waldman, presents her masterwork, IOVIS, an explication of Jove as quintessential patriarch. Waldman combines tributes to poetic fathers such as Kerouac, Robert Creeley, and John Cage, with references to Balinese, Greek, and Mayan mythology, and reminiscences of her father, grandfather, and son, to create an all-encompassing book-length poem, a major contribution to American letters.

Author City: BOULDER, CO USA

Anne Waldman, poet, professor, performer, and cultural activist is the author of over 40 books and small press editions of poetry and poetics. She has participated in conferences and festivals in Beijing, Berlin, Vienna, Nicaragua, and Prague and has taught recent practicums at the Zen Mountain Monastery and Naropa University. She divides her time between Boulder, Colorado, and Greenwich Village, New York.