Poetry. "I've heard it said that poetry that uses the phrasal fragment can't have a coherent and strident politics. I've never believed it. But if for some reason you have, read ONCE UPON A NEOLIBERAL ROCKET BADGE and be shown the way. This collectuon makes the lyric and socialist realist documentary look helpless in the face of neoliberalism. If there is, as many want to argue now, a poetry of globalization, Jules Boykoff is writing it and those looking for what poetry might look like post-Seattle will find this necessary reading"-Juliana Spahr. "Boykoff unleashes a ribald criticality as a bald come on to liberation. Liberation shimmies. New stuff shakes out. Here's a poetic practice boldly moving beyond current centrist expreimental poetries and their obsession with betweening and thereining. Bump all that! Give us the shake out. Give us a hand"-Rodrigo Toscano.

Author City: Forest Grove, OR USA

Judy Katz-Levine was born in Newark, NJ in 1949. She grew up in a musical family, with a grandmother who played stride piano, and musicians who later became top performing world musicians. She attended Simmons College where she studied with Norman Klein. She audited a class taught at MIT by Denise Levertov, befriending Levertov and maintaining a close friendship with her. Katz-Levine has continued to write and publish poetry and prose poems in magazines such as The Sun, The Bitter Oleander, lift, Asylum, Salamander, 96 Inc., Mothering, The Plaza (Japan), a Faber & Faber Anthology - Diamonds Are A Girl's Best Friend, Stride Anthology (England), Mother Jones, Voices Israel (Israel), Printed Matter (Japan), and many other magazines and anthologies. Her first full-length collection was When The Arms Of Our Dreams Embrace SARU Press International. Her newest collection is Ocarina, published by Tarsier Books, an affiliate of SARU, an international cooperative. Both books are available from Small Press Distribution. She has recently had work in The Delinquent, a new magazine in the United Kingdom. Also a musician, Judy Katz-Levine continues to play jazz flute, sing in a choir. She lives with her husband, an acupuncturist and sax player, and a computer-buff.