Poetry. Here is a poetry that explores the promise of public speech. What might we hear in poems that ask: if communities are built with weathered words, what is the sort of discernment that translation makes elusive? Public and private, Deborah Meadows's poems ask "what provokes us to step toward the podium and begin a primary language game."

Author Hometown: Los Angeles, CA USA



About the author: 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:
http://epc.buffalo.edu/authors/meadows/