Poetry. "Anyone who loves Paris will find that literarily-overdetermined city brought to new life—new and not particularly literary, for through Joyce's sharp, quick, and cleverly amorous eye, Paris is evoked not as objet d'art, but as sloppily, raucously, lived; as an idiosyncratic confluence of specific instances that shed deep light on the way that individual perception and experience sculpt public space. Throughout, he makes the most of a delightful and visceral head-on collision of languages to construct a space between all utterance that is raw and always reaching out for its word—which, though not yet arrived, can be felt coming into being through that collision itself."—Cole Swensen

Author City: NEW HAMBURG, NY USA

Michael Joyce's poems have been published in Beloit Poetry Journal, FOLLY (LA), Gastronomica, nor/, The Iowa Review, New Letters, Notre Dame Review, Parthenon West, Spoon River Review, New Review, OR (Otis Review), The Common, and THE SHOp (Cork). Together with Gabriella Frykhamn he has published translations of the Swedish modernist poet Karin Boye in Spoon River Review, Metamorphoses, and Notre Dame Review. He is the author of The War Outside Ireland (Tinkers Dam Prress, 1992), Was: Annales Nomadique, a Novel of Internet (Fiction Collective 2, 2007), Liam's Going (McPherson and Company, 2009), and PARIS VIEWS (BlazeVOX books, 2012). In recent years he has been collaborating in multimedia work with LA visual artist Alexandra Grant. Together with his wife Carolyn Guyer, he lives along the Hudson River near Poughkeepsie where he is Professor of English at Vassar College.