Poetry. Essays. Anne Waldman's OUTRIDER gathers essays, poems & rants, an interview with her by Matthew Cooperman, and an interview by her with Nicaraguan poet Ernesto Cardenal in an attempt to further articulate a sense of tradition from Walt Whitman to the present. Outrider is an invocation of lineage as a challenge toward examining the practice of poetry and the links of its history. This awareness of lineage encompasses both what has been inherited and what needs be passed on. "In OUTRIDER, we encounter a relentless drive to know, revolt, and review with equal parts honesty and abandon, as only Anne Waldman can produce. Take this ride through geographies of ideas and conversations and come out with your hair aflame and your tongue out."-Renee Gladman

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.