Poetry. A central figure in the international avant-garde for fifty years, Rochelle Owens has published sixteen previous volumes of poetry, including NEW AND SELECTED POEMS 1961-1996 and LUCA: DISCOURSE ON LIFE AND DEATH (both Junction Press, 1997 and 2001). She has been the recipient of five Village Voice Obie awards and Honors from the New York Drama Critics' Circle for her plays. Her work has been translated into French, German, Italian, Spanish, Ukrainian, and Japanese.

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Rochelle Owens is the author of seventeen collections of poetry, including SOLITARY WORKWOMAN, LUCA: DISCOURSE ON LIFE AND DEATH, and NEW AND SELECTED POEMS 1961-1996 (all three Junction Press); nineteen plays, collected in Futz and What Came After (Random House), The Karl Marx Play and Others (E.P. Dutton), Futz and Who Do You Want Piere Vidal? (Hawkswell Press and Broadway Play Publishing), and Plays by Rochelle Owens: Chucky's Hunch, Futz, Kontraption, Three Front (Broadway Play Publishing); the screenplay for Futz (United Commonwealth Films); and the novel Journey to Purity (Texture Press). She translated Liliane Atlan's The Passersby (Henry Holt) and edited Spontaneous Combustion: Eight New American Plays (Winter House).

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