Stephen Rodefer
Encyclopedia
Stephen Rodefer is an American
poet
and painter
who lives in Paris
and London
. Rodefer is one of the founders of the L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E poetry movement. He knew many of the early beat and Black Mountain
poets, including Allen Ginsberg
, Gregory Corso
, Charles Olson
, and Robert Creeley
.
His papers were purchased by Stanford University
and are on permanent view there.
, Amherst, Massachusetts
, Art History & Literature
1959-61 SUNY Buffalo, New York, Graduate Studies in Poetry and Literature
Translation
Criticism
United States
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poet
Poet
A poet is a person who writes poetry. A poet's work can be literal, meaning that his work is derived from a specific event, or metaphorical, meaning that his work can take on many meanings and forms. Poets have existed since antiquity, in nearly all languages, and have produced works that vary...
and painter
Painting
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who lives in Paris
Paris
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and London
London
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. Rodefer is one of the founders of the L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E poetry movement. He knew many of the early beat and Black Mountain
Black Mountain poets
The Black Mountain poets, sometimes called projectivist poets, were a group of mid 20th century American avant-garde or postmodern poets centered on Black Mountain College.-Background:...
poets, including Allen Ginsberg
Allen Ginsberg
Irwin Allen Ginsberg was an American poet and one of the leading figures of the Beat Generation in the 1950s. He vigorously opposed militarism, materialism and sexual repression...
, Gregory Corso
Gregory Corso
Gregory Nunzio Corso was an American poet, youngest of the inner circle of Beat Generation writers...
, Charles Olson
Charles Olson
Charles Olson , was a second generation American modernist poet who was a link between earlier figures such as Ezra Pound and William Carlos Williams and the New American poets, which includes the New York School, the Black Mountain School, the Beat poets, and the San Francisco Renaissance...
, and Robert Creeley
Robert Creeley
Robert Creeley was an American poet and author of more than sixty books. He is usually associated with the Black Mountain poets, though his verse aesthetic diverged from that school's. He was close with Charles Olson, Robert Duncan, Allen Ginsberg, John Wieners and Ed Dorn. He served as the Samuel P...
.
His papers were purchased by Stanford University
Stanford University
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and are on permanent view there.
Education
1959-63 Amherst CollegeAmherst College
Amherst College is a private liberal arts college located in Amherst, Massachusetts, United States. Amherst is an exclusively undergraduate four-year institution and enrolled 1,744 students in the fall of 2009...
, Amherst, Massachusetts
Amherst, Massachusetts
Amherst is a town in Hampshire County, Massachusetts, United States in the Connecticut River valley. As of the 2010 census, the population was 37,819, making it the largest community in Hampshire County . The town is home to Amherst College, Hampshire College, and the University of Massachusetts...
, Art History & Literature
1959-61 SUNY Buffalo, New York, Graduate Studies in Poetry and Literature
Books
Poetry- 2008: Call it Thought: Selected Poems. Carcanet, Manchester (UK)
- 2000: Left Under a Cloud. Alfred David Editions, London.
- 2000: Mon Canard: Six Poems. The Figures, Great Barrington, MA
- 1996: Answer to Dr Agathon. Poetical Histories, Cambridge (UK)
- 1994: Erasers. Equipage, Cambridge (UK)
- 1992: Leaving. Equipage, Cambridge (UK)
- 1992: Double Imperative Landscapes: Daydreams of Frascati, with Chip Sullivan (Berkeley, CA: Sake Forebear)
- 1991: Passing Duration. Burning Deck, Providence, RI
- 1987: Emergency Measures (Great Barrington, MA: The Figures)
- 1984: Oriflamme Day, with Benjamin Friedlander (Oakland, CA: House of K)
- 1982: Four Lectures (Berkeley, CA : The Figures)
- 1981: Plane Debris (Berkeley, CA: Tuumba Press)
- 1978: The Bell Clerk’s Tears Keep Flowing (Berkeley, CA: The Figures)
- 1976: One or Two Love Poems from the White World (Placitas, NM: Duende)
- 1965: The Knife. Island Press, Toronto.
Translation
- 2008: Hölderlin, with Nick Walker (UK: Barque Editions)
- 2008: Baudelaire, Fever Flowers: les fleurs du val (UK: Barque Editions)
- 1994: Rilke I IV VI, with Geoff Ward and Ian Patterson (Cambridge, UK: Poetical Histories)
- 1991: 'Dante: Selections from the Inferno' in Passing Duration
- 1985: Orpheus [Rilke] (San Francisco: Tuscany Alley)
- 1985: Safety, translations from Sappho and the Greek Anthology (Berkeley, CA: Margery Cantor)
- 1976: Villon, by Jean Calais [pen name] (San Francisco: Pick Pocket Series)
- 1973: After Lucretius (University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT)
Criticism
- 2008: The Monkeys Donut: Essays in Post-Classical American Literature (London: Kollophon)
- 1988: The Library of Label (Toronto: Coach House)