| In
the Room of Never Grieve:
New and Selected Poems
1985-2003
Author Biography
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by Jerome Hiler |
Anne
Waldman is widely acknowledged as one of the foremost
cultural, poetic, spiritual, and political voices in
America. The author of over forty books, she has collaborated
with visual artists, filmmakers, composers, dancers,
and musicians. Ted Berrigan called her the "most
exciting poet of her generation" and The New York
Times Book Review says "Ms. Waldman is herself
a dramatic reader of her own poetry, at once deadpan
and ferocious, whose influence can be seen in the stage
demeanors of such performers as Laurie Anderson and
David Byrne….She's the fastest, wisest woman to
run with the wolves in some time."
In
an ongoing mission to "make the world safe for
poetry," she, together with Allen Ginsberg, founded
the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics at Naropa
University where she is a Distinguished Professor of
Poetics. A two-time World Heavyweight Champion Poet,
she is the recent recipient of a Foundation for Contemporary
Performance Arts Grant and winner of the Poetry Society
of America's Shelley Memorial Award. Waldman lives in
Boulder, Colorado and New York City while teaching and
performing around the globe.
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