Summary
Originally published in the 1980s and out of print until now, Rodefer’s four long poems are milestones in American avant-garde poetry.
Stephen Rodefer was an innovative, singular American writer—a student of Charles Olson’s often associated with the Language poets but whose eclectic, energetic verse defies categorization and embraces a worldly lyricism all Rodefer’s own.
Four Lectures—first published in 1982 and long out of print—is widely considered to be his masterp…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781681379326 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1681379325 |
| Author: | Stephen Rodefer |
| Publisher: | New York Review Books |
| Imprint: | NYRB Poets |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 80 |
| Release Date: | 20 May 2025 |
| Weight: | 369g |
| Dimensions: | 178mm x 114mm |
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“Part carnival, part war, the clamor of the world is loud in these works, submitted by a rigorous and passionate intellect to the clarities which only language can yield… . What other writer can give us this much of the real?” —Ron Silliman
“Stephen Rodefer’s writing is simply one of the eight wonders of the world.” —Ian Patterson
About The Author
Stephen Rodefer
Stephen Rodefer (1940-2015) was an American poet and painter who lived in Paris and London. Born in Bellaire, Ohio, he knew many of the early Beat and Black Mountain poets, including Allen Ginsberg, Gregory Corso, Charles Olson, and Robert Creeley. Rodefer, one of the original Language poets, taught at many universities, including Cambridge University, UC Berkeley, UC San Diego, San Francisco State, and the American University of Paris. Rodefer was the first American poet to be offered a Fellowship at Cambridge University. He was the author of One or Two Love Poems from the White World, The Bell Clerk’s Tears Keep Flowing, Four Lectures, Oriflamme Day (with poet Benjamin Friedlander), Emergency Measures, Passing Duration, Leaving, Erasures, Left Under A Cloud, Call It Thought, and Mon Canard, among other titles. His graphic work, Language Pictures, has been exhibited in recent years in New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, London, Paris, and Prague. He died in Paris.
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