Ted Pearson (born 1948 in
Palo Alto, California
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) is an
American poet
The poets listed below were either born in the United States or else published much of their poetry while living in that country.
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*George Quasha (born 1942 in poetry, 1942)
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. He is often associated with the
Language poets
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Life and work
Pearson was born in 1948 in Palo Alto, California. He began studying music in 1960 and began writing poetry in 1964. He subsequently attended
VanderCook College of Music
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(Chicago),
Foothill College
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(Los Altos Hills), and
San Francisco State University
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(BA English, 1971). In 1977, Pearson began his long association with the San Francisco Language Poets, who were then actively involved in creating a new school of innovative writing that emerged in San Francisco, New York, and other places during this period. In 1988, Pearson left the Bay Area, and has since lived in Ithaca, Buffalo, Detroit, Redlands, Oakland, and Houston. He now lives in Northampton, MA, with his wife, Sheila Lloyd.
During the 1990s, Pearson was in charge of readings and residencies at
Just Buffalo Literary Center
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Just Buffalo Literary Center is located above the Western New York Book ...
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His poetry has appeared in magazines including the ''
Chicago Review
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''.
Selected publications
*''The Grit,'' 1976, Trike Books (San Francisco, CA)
*''The Blue Table,'' 1979, Trike Books (San Francisco, CA)
*''Soundings,'' 1980, Singing Horse Press (Blue Bell, PA)
*''Ellipsis,'' 1981, Trike Books (San Francisco, CA)
*''Refractions,'' 1982, Origin (Series 4) (Boston, MA)
*''Flukes,'' 1982, Privately Printed (San Francisco, CA)
*''Coulomb's Law,'' 1984, Square Zero Editions (San Francisco, CA)
*''Mnemonics,'' 1985, Gaz (San Francisco, CA)
*''Catenary Odes,'' 1987, O Books (Oakland, CA)
*''Evidence: 1975-1989,'' Gaz 1989, (San Francisco, CA)
*''Planetary Gear,'' 1991, Roof Books (New York, NY)
*''Mnèmoniques,'' 1992, Trans. Françoise de Laroque, Un bureau sur l'Atlantique (Royaumont, France)
*''Acoustic Masks,'' 1994, Zasterle Press (Tenerife, Spain)
*''The Devil's Aria,'' 1999, Meow Press (Buffalo, NY)
*''Songs Aside: 1992-2002,'' 2003, Past Tents Press (Detroit, MI)
*''Encryptions,'' 2007, Singing Horse Press (San Diego, CA)
*''Extant Glyphs: 1964-1980,'' 2014, Singing Horse Press (San Diego, CA)
*''An Intermittent Music: 1975-2010,'' 2016, Chax Press (Victoria, TX)
*''The Coffin Nail Blues,'' 2016, Atelos (Berkeley, CA)
*''After Hours,'' 2016, Singing Horse Press (San Diego, CA)
*''The Markov Chain,'' 2017, Shearsman Books (Bristol, UK)
*''Trace Elements,'' 2019, Tuumba Press (Berkeley, CA)
*''Personal Effects,'' 2019, BlazeVox Books (Kenmore, NY)
*''Exit Music,'' 2019, Singing Horse Press (San Diego, CA)
*''Last Date,'' 2020, Singing Horse Press (San Diego, CA)
*''Set Pieces,'' 2021, Spuyten Duyvil (New York, NY)
*''Durations,'' 2022, Selva Oscura Press (Chicago, IL)
*''Overtures,'' 2023, BlazeVox Books (Kenmore, NY)
*''Chamber Music,'' 2024, Shearsman Books (Bristol, UK)
References
External links
* The autho
readingat SUNY Buffalo.
* The autho
at the Kelly Writers House of the
University of Pennsylvania
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* The author in 2007 at the University of California Berkeley.
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1948 births
American male poets
Language poets
Living people
Poets from California