Poetry. Winner of the 2004 Gertrude Stein Poetry Award, REPRESENTING ABSENCE performs various writing-through exercises which deftly extract and comment on literary giants, bringing them to their knees with a feather from the future canon of American poetry. "The sot, his error or fishing lens / lives in our spirits, works in our bodies, / so we eliminate our friendly notes / like mendicants nourishing our vermin" -- from "Faux translation of Charles Baudelaire's `To the Reader'" Meadows other publications include THE 60'S AND 70'S FROM `THE THEORY OF SUBJECTIVITY IN MOBY-DICK,' which is available from SPD.

Author City: Los Angeles, CA USA

Born in Buffalo, New York, in 1956, Deborah Meadows's family were ironworkers. She now lives in the Arts District/Little Tokyo section of Los Angeles with Howard Stover and teaches in the Liberal Studies department at California State Polytechnic University, Pomona. Her books include SACCADE PATTERNS, DEPLETED BURDEN DOWN, GOODBYE TISSUES, INVOLUTIA, THIN GLOVES, GROWING STILL, ITINERANT MEN, REPRESENTING ABSENCE, and THE 6O'S AND 70'S: FROM "THE THEORY OF SUBJECTIVITY IN MOBY-DICK."

Reviews and Other Links
http://epc.buffalo.edu/authors/meadows/
http://versemag.blogspot.com/2005/02/new-review-of-deborah-meadows.html