Lewis Warsh

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Lewis Warsh was born in 1944 in the Bronx, New York. He is co-founder, with Anne Waldman, of Angel Hair Magazine and Books, and co-editor, with Bernadette Mayer, of United Artists Magazine and Books. He is the author of over twenty-five books of poetry, fiction and autobiography, most recently Inseparable: Poems 1995-2005 (Granary Books) and A Place in the Sun (forthcoming from Spuyten Duyvil). He is director of the MFA program in creative writing at Long Island University in Brooklyn, New York.

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[edit] Publications

[edit] Poetry

  • The Suicide Rates (Toad Press: Eugene, Oregon. 1967)
  • Highjacking (Boke Press: New York, N.Y. 1968)
  • Moving Through Air (Angel Hair Books, 1968)
  • Chicago (with Tom Clark, Angel Hair Books, 1969)
  • Dreaming As One(Corinth Books, 1971)
  • Long Distance (Ferry Press, 1972)
  • Immediate Surrounding (Other Books, 1974)
  • Today (Adventures In Poetry, 1974)
  • Blue Heaven (The Kulchur Foundation, 1978)
  • Hives (United Artists Books, 1979)
  • Methods of Birth Control (Sun & Moon Books, 1983)
  • The Corset (In Camera Books, 1987)
  • Information From the Surface of Venus (United Artists, 1987)
  • Avenue of Escape (Long News Books, 1995)
  • Private Agenda (with Pamela Lawton, Hornswoggle Press, 1996)
  • The Origin of the World (Creative Arts, 2001)
  • Debtor's Prison (with Julie Harrison, Granary, 2001)
  • Reported Missing (United Artists, 2003)
  • The Flea Market in Kiel (A Rest Books, 2006)
  • Flight Test (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2006)
  • Inseparable: Poems 1995-2005 (Granary, 2008)

[edit] Fiction

  • AGNES & SALLY (The Fiction Collective, 1984)
  • A FREE MAN (Sun & Moon, 1991)
  • MONEY UNDER THE TABLE (Trip Street Press, 1997)
  • TOUCH OF THE WHIP (Singing Horse, 2001)
  • TED’S FAVORITE SKIRT (Spuyten Duyvil, 2002)
  • A PLACE IN THE SUN (Spuyten Duyvil, 2008)

[edit] Autobiography

  • PART OF MY HISTORY (Coach House Press, 1972)
  • THE MAHARAJHA’S SON (Angel Hair Books, 1977)
  • BUSTIN’S ISLAND ‘68 (Granary Books, 1996)

[edit] Translation

  • NIGHT OF LOVELESS NIGHTS by Robert Desnos (Ant’s Forefoot Books, 1973)

[edit] Editor

  • THE ANGEL HAIR ANTHOLOGY (with Anne Waldman; Granary Books, 2001)

[edit] Anthologies

  • THE YOUNG AMERICAN POETS (Follette, 1967)
  • THE YOUNG AMERICAN WRITERS (Funk & Wagnalls, 1968)
  • THE WORLD ANTHOLOGY (Bobbs-Merrill, 1969)
  • ANOTHER WORLD (Bobbs-Merrill, 1971)
  • ON THE MESA (City Lights, 1972)
  • I SING THE BODY ELECTRIC (William Morrow, 1978)
  • DIAMONDS (Doubleday, 1981)
  • THE POET EXPOSED (Aperture, 1986)
  • UP LATE: AMERICAN POETRY SINCE 1970 (4 Walls, 8 Windows, 1987)
  • BROADWAY: AN ANTHOLOGY OF POETS & PAINTERS (Hanging Loose, 1988)
  • NICE TO SEE YOU (Coffee House, 1990)
  • OUT OF THIS WORLD (Crown, 1991)
  • THE UNMADE BED (Harper Collins, 1991)
  • FROM THE OTHER SIDE OF THE CENTURY (Sun & Moon, 1994)
  • AMERICAN POETS SAY GOODBYE TO THE 20TH CENTURY (4 Walls, 8 Windows, 1996)
  • PRIMARY TROUBLE (Talisman Books, 1996)
  • 2000 AND WHAT? (Trip Street Press, 1996)
  • BEST AMERICAN POETRY 1997 (Scribners)
  • A SECRET LOCATION ON THE LOWER EAST SIDE (Granary Books/The New York Public Library, 1998)
  • THE NEW GENERATION: POEMS FROM CHINA TODAY (Hanging Loose, 1999)
  • THE KGB ANTHOL0GY (Morrow, 1999)
  • THE BODY ELECTRIC (Norton, 1999)
  • HERE LIES (Trip Street Press, 2000)
  • THE BLIND SEE ONLY THE BLIND (Granary, 2000)
  • TEACHERS & WRITERS GUIDE TO CLASSIC AMERICAN LITERATURE (Teachers & Writers Collaborative, 2001)
  • POETRY AFTER 9/11 (Melville House, 2002)
  • BEST AMERICAN POETRY (Scribners, 2002)
  • BEST AMERICAN POETRY (Scribners, 2003)
  • THE BROOKLYN RAIL FICTION ANTHOLOGY (Hanging Loose, 2006)
  • NINETEEN LINES: A DRAWING CENTER ANTHOLOGY (The Drawing Center/Roof, 2007)
  • GERTRUDE STEIN AWARDS FOR INNOVATIVE AMERICAN POETRY (Green Integer, 2008)

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