Description
Poetry. "STARS OF THE NIGHT COMMUTE haunts in three dimensions, knit by a below-words rumble in the sure rhythm of dreams."—Annie Finch
"Božičević's poetry has everything—a mastery of language, a distinct and singular voice and a worldview so visionary and all-encompassing, so as to both terrify and astound."—Noelle Kocot
"How does she do it?"—Eileen Myles
"Absolutely anything can happen next but whatever it is, it will be perfect.... She is able to stretch language to its most ineffable and musical limits while maintaining a masterful grasp of the colloquial.... She is able to perceive with the eyes of language—then render with lyrical immediacy—the experience of our collective sleepwalking soul, who may well soon awaken to discover that its terror was not a dream."—Franz Wright
Author Bio
Ana Božičević, born in Croatia in 1977, is a poet, translator, teacher,and occasional singer. She is the author of JOY OF MISSING OUT (Birds, LLC, 2017), STARS OF THE NIGHT COMMUTE (Tarpaulin Sky Press, 2009) and the Lambda Award-winning RISE IN THE FALL (Birds, LLC, 2013). She is the recipient of the 40 Under 40: The Future of Feminism award from the Feminist Press, and the PEN American Center/NYSCA grant for translating It Was Easy to Set the Snow on Fire by Zvonko Karanović, from Phoneme Media. At the PhD Program in English at The Graduate Center of the City University of New York she studied New American poetics and alternative art schools and communities, and edited lectures by Diane di Prima for LOST & FOUND: THE CUNY POETICS DOCUMENT INITIATIVE. Ana has read, taught and performed at Art Basel, Bowery Poetry Club, Harvard, Naropa University, San Francisco State University Poetry Center, the Sorbonne, Third Man Records, University of Arizona Poetry Center, and The Watermill Center. She works and teaches poetry at BHQFU, New York's freest art school.
Author City: BROOKLYN, NY USA