Lewis Warsh

Lewis Warsh (born in 1944 in the Bronx, New York), 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.

Publications

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)

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, 2010)

Autobiography

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

Translation

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

Editor

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

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)

References

External links

• Lewis Warsh Personal website