C. S. Giscombe
Cecil S. Giscombe (born 1950 Dayton, Ohio) is an African American poet and professor of English at University of California, Berkeley.[1]
Life
A graduate of SUNY at Albany and Cornell University, he was editor of Epoch magazine. He taught at Cornell University, Syracuse University, Illinois State University, and Pennsylvania State University.[2] As of 2010, he teaches at University of California, Berkeley.[3]
His work appeared in Callaloo,[4] Another Chicago Magazine, Hambone, New American Writing, o.blek, Obsidian, River Styx, Situation and Samizdat (poetry magazine).
Giscombe has also worked as a taxi driver, a hospital orderly, and a railroad brakeman.[5] He acknowledges his childhood fascination with trains as having an influence in his writing, noting that the railroad is "not sentimental...continuous...intimately connected to features of land and water." [6]
Awards
- 2008 American Book Award for Prairie Style [7]
Works
- "Excerpts from Giscome Road", Electronic Poetry Review
- Into and Out of Dislocation. Diane Publishing Co. 2001. ISBN 978-0-7567-6662-7.
- Giscome Road. Dalkey Archive Press. 1998. ISBN 978-1-56478-184-0.
- Here. Dalkey Archive Press. 1994. ISBN 978-1-56478-338-7.
- Prairie Style. Dalkey Archive Press. 2008. ISBN 978-1-56478-513-8.
References
- ↑ Cecil S. Giscombe, retrieved October 16, 2011
- ↑ American Book Review :: C. S. Giscombe
- ↑ C. S. Giscombe | Directory of Writers | Poets & Writers
- ↑ http://muse.jhu.edu/login?uri=/journals/callaloo/v024/24.3giscombe.html
- ↑ http://www.woodlandpattern.org/poems/cs_giscombe01.shtml
- ↑ http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/2008/08/prairie-style-an-interview-with-cs-giscombe/
- ↑ http://english.berkeley.edu/news/story.php?id=7
External links
- "Prairie Style: An interview with C.S. Giscombe", Poetry Foundation
- "C.S. Giscombe", Electronic Poetry Center
- "C.S. Giscombe", PennSound
- "Review of Giscome Road'" in Samizdat
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