George Quasha
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George Quasha (born on July 14, 1942 in White Plains, New York) is an artist, poet and author who works across mediums to explore principles in common within language, sculpture, drawing, video, sound, installation, and performance. In 1977 he founded Station Hill Press with Susan Quasha in Barrytown, New York. Since the late 1970s he has collaborated in performances featuring video, language and sound with video artist Gary Hill and poet Charles Stein. In 2006 he was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in video art for his video installation art is: Speaking Portraits (in the performative indicative).
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- America a Prophecy: A New Reading of American Poetry from Pre-Columbian Times to the Present (with Jerome Rothenberg, Random House, 1973)
- Open Poetry (with Ronald Gross, Simon & Schuster, 1973)
- Somapoetics (Sumac Press, 1973)
- An Active Anthology (Sumac Press, 1974)
- Word-Yum (Metapoetics Press, 1974)
- Giving the Lily Back Her Hands (Station Hill Press, 1979)
- HanD HearD/liminal objects: Gary Hill’s Projective Installations, Number 1 (with Charles Stein, Station Hill Press, 1997)
- Tall Ships: Gary Hill’s Projective Installations, Number 2 (with Charles Stein, Station Hill Press, 1997)
- Viewer: Gary Hill’s Projective Installations, Number 3 (with Charles Stein, Station Hill Press, 1997)
- Ainu Dreams (with Chie Hasegawa, Station Hill Press, 1999)
- The Station Hill Blanchot Reader: Fiction & Literary Essays (ed. George Quasha, Station Hill Press, 1999)
- Gary Hill: Language Willing (further/art and Boise Art Museum, 2002)
- Axial Stones: An Art of Precarious Balance (North Atlantic, 2006)
