Andrew Joron is an American writer of experimental poetry

Experimental literature

Experimental literature refers to written works - often novels or magazines - that place great emphasis on innovations regarding technique and style.-Early history:...

. He began by writing science fiction poetry. Joron's later poetry, combining scientific and philosophical ideas with the sonic properties of language, has been compared to the work of the Russian Futurist Velimir Khlebnikov

Velimir Khlebnikov

Velimir Khlebnikov , pseudonym of Viktor Vladimirovich Khlebnikov , was a central part of the Russian Futurist movement, but his work and influence stretch far beyond it.Khlebnikov belonged to Hylaea,...

. Joron currently lives in Berkeley

Berkeley, California

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, California

California

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During the 1990s, Andrew Joron formed a close friendship with the poet and novelist Gustaf Sobin

Gustaf Sobin

Gustaf Sobin was a U.S.-born poet and author who spent most of his adult life in France. Originally from Boston, Sobin attended the Choate School, Brown University, and moved to Paris in 1962...

. Sobin, who died in 2005, designated Joron as his literary co-executor, along with American poet Andrew Zawacki

Andrew Zawacki

Andrew Zawacki is an American poet, critic, editor, and translator. His first book By Reason of Breakings won the 2001 University of Georgia Contemporary Poetry Series, chosen by Forrest Gander....

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He has won the Rhysling Award three times: for Best Long Poem in 1980 and 1986, and for Best Short Poem in 1978; and the Gertrude Stein Award twice, in 1996 and 2006.

Joron is the translator, from the German, of the Marxist-Utopian philosopher Ernst Bloch

Ernst Bloch

Ernst Bloch was a German Marxist philosopher.Bloch was influenced by both Hegel and Marx and, as he always confessed, by novelist Karl May. He was also interested in music and art . He established friendships with Georg Lukács, Bertolt Brecht, Kurt Weill and Theodor W. Adorno...

’s Literary Essays which was published by Stanford University Press

Stanford University Press

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 in 1998. Joron is also the translator of The Perpetual Motion Machine by the German fantasist Paul Scheerbart

Paul Scheerbart

Paul Karl Wilhelm Scheerbart was an author of fantastic literature and drawings. He was also published under the pseudonym Kuno Küfer and is best known for the book Glasarchitektur ....

 (Wakefield Press, 2011).

Since 2008 he has played theremin

Theremin

The theremin , originally known as the aetherphone/etherophone, thereminophone or termenvox/thereminvox is an early electronic musical instrument controlled without discernible physical contact from the player. It is named after its Russian inventor, Professor Léon Theremin, who patented the device...

 in the improv ambient/drone trio Cloud Shepherd.

List of books

• Force Fields. Borgo Press, 1987.
• Velocities Set (editor). Ocean View Books, 1988.
• Science Fiction. Pantograph Press, 1992.
• Terminal Velocities (editor). Pantograph Press, 1993.
• Invisible Machines with Robert Frazier
  Robert Frazier
  Robert Alexander Frazier is an American writer of speculative poetry and fiction, as well as an impressionist painter on Nantucket Island....
  
   and Thomas Wiloch
  Thomas Wiloch
  Thomas Wiloch was an American author, editor, poet, and illustrator.Born in Detroit, Michigan, Wiloch was "one of a handful of contemporary American masters of the prose miniature," Greg Boyd wrote in Asylum....
  
  . Jazz Police Books, 1997.
• The Removes. Hard Press, 1999.
• The emergency of poetry. Velocities, 2002.
• Fathom. Black Square Editions, 2003.
• Neo-surrealism: Or, The Sun At Night. Black Square Editions, 2004.
• The Cry at Zero: Selected Prose. Counterpath Press, 2007.
• The Sound Mirror. Flood Editions, 2008.
• Force Fields with Brian Lucas. Hooke Press, 2010. (This is a different book than Joron's 1987 book of the same title.)
• Trance Archive: New and Selected Poems. City Lights Books, 2010. ISBN 9780872865303

External links

Joron sites, exhibits, artist pages

• Andrew Joron in the Poets and Writers Directory
• Andrew Joron's bio at the Poetry Foundation

Online publications

• Trance Archive Table of Contents and first five poems
• Poetry by Andrew Joron in New American Writing
• Andrew Joron's essay "The Emergency of Poetry"
• Andrew Joron's essay "The Crisis of the Crystal"
• Andrew Joron's "Constellations for Theremin"

Others on Joron, reviews, perspectives

• Review of Andrew Joron's book Fathom in Rain Taxi
• Review of Andrew Joron's book Fathom in Boston Review
• Review of Andrew Joron's book The Cry at Zero at A Tonalist Notes
• Review of Andrew Joron's book The Cry at Zero in Denver Quarterly
• Review of Andrew Joron's book The Sound Mirror in Bookforum
• Review of Andrew Joron's book Trance Archive on thethepoetry.com

Interviews

• Garrett Caples interviews Andrew Joron for Studio One interview published online March 30, 2010 in conjunction with a reading Joron gave on April 2, 2010 at the Studio One Reading Series in Oakland, CA
• Christopher Nelson interviews Andrew Joron