Poetry. CONTRADICTIONS calls into question perspective, beginning with the very words we use to communicate. A master of poetic form, Alfred Corn draws on (and improvises against) metrical traditions to verbally re-enact visual art and jazz; to see the world from multiple (and sometimes opposing) viewpoints; and to illuminate cultural nuances from religious history to present-day Chelsea in New York City. Like other progressive poets, Corn sees personal experience, poetry and political action as a continuum, and he regards artistic freedom as incomplete until all citizens are fully enfranchised. "Corn attains a calm in which our attention is drawn not to the individual note of brilliance but to the grace of the whole"-The Village Voice.

Author City: NEW YORK, NY USA

Alfred Corn was born and raised in south Georgia and excelled as a student, eventually earning degrees in French studies from Emory and Columbia University. A recipient of fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the Academy of American Poets, and the National Endowment for the Arts, among others, Corn has traveled widely, but has made New York City his primary residence for most of the past thirty years. He is the author of eight books of poetry, a novel, a study of prosody, and a collection of essays. As an art critic, he writes for Art in America and ARTNews; his poems appear regularly in The New Yorker, The Nation, and The New Republic. He has been awarded fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the NEA. He has taught at Yale, UCLA, Columbia University, and currently teaches at the University of Oklahoma.