David Melnick

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David Melnick is a contemporary American poet. Melnick has written four books of poetry to date: Eclogs (published 1972); PCOET (published 1975); Men in Aida, Book One (1983), and A Pin's Fee.

Melnick is commonly regarded as a Language poet. Excerpts from PCOET and Men in Aida appeared in Ron Silliman's groundbreaking anthology In the American Tree.

Melnick's work PCOET is a collection of short poems apparently rendered in a nonsense language with only the slightest resemblance to English; Men in Aida is a phonetic transcription of Book One of Homer's Iliad into a farcical bathhouse scenario, suggesting underlying homoeroticism in the original text.

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