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Wellman, Donald

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1962847381 ISBN 13 : 9781962847384

Editeur : DOS Madres Press, 2026

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À propos de l'auteur

Donald Wellman is an American poet, editor, essayist and translator. Wellman, was born July 7, 1944 in the industrial town of Nashua NH. His childhood was spent in Nashua and on Cranberry Island in Maine. His father, Donald F. Wellman, was career soldier, his mother, Frances Louise (Bunker) Wellman, from a navy family with roots on Cranberry Island. His background was working class. He attended the University of New Hampshire and graduated with a BA in English Literature, minors in German and Theater. In 1968 he was drafted into the U.S. Army and served in Germany. He then studied at the University of Oregon, taking a Doctor of Arts in modern poetry(concentrations on Ezra Pound and Charles Olson). He joined the faculty of Daniel Webster College in Nashua NH in 1984. Wellman currently lives in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Wellman first came to the attention of the literary community in 1981 with the publication of Coherence, the first volume of O.ARS, a series which has functioned as an outlet for experimental work by writers such as Andrei Codrescu, Robert Creeley, Dick Higgins, Richard Kostelanetz, Rochelle Owens, Ron Silliman, Gilbert Sorrentino, Rosmarie Waldrop, and Lyn Hejinian. O.ARS was received as a breakthrough work in both modern fiction and poetics, receiving praise from the Olson scholar, George Butterick and Welch Everman [3]. Wellman's early influences Ezra Pound, and William Carlos Williams led to association with poets of the avant-garde of 1970s and 80's. Olson's influence on Wellman has been remarked upon by critic Mark Scroggins: "There are a number of confirmed Olsonians, poets whose work is deeply invested in Olson's mannerism and habits of thought, such as Donald Wellman, Gerritt Lansing, and Don Byrd...among others Susan Howe." Wellman's work The Cranberry Island Series employs Olsonian techniques to delve the histories of a particular geography and embed it with his own poetic and existential concerns. The degree to which the art of translation has altered Wellman's approach to literary creation sets him apart from other poets associated with L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E Magazine, like Barrett Watten, Ron Silliman and Charles Bernstein. His approach is closer to that of writer / translators such as Jerome Rothenberg[5], Keith Waldrop and Rosmarie Waldrop. Wellman's poetry is serial in form with linked images and resonances forming clusters of varying lengths. This technique derives from the Cantos of Ezra Pound. It has similar features to the overlay of palimpsestic materials found in the works of H. D. and Robert Duncan. His pursuit of serial structure with embedded historical and lyric fragments is distinctive. Today, Wellman is one of the more widely read American experimental poets and translators. His translation of the Spanish poet Antonio Gamoneda's Grave Stones, University of New Orleans Press, 2009, along with Gamoneda's Description of a Lie introduced the writer to English language readers. [6]. As Cole Swensen remarked, "Wellman effectively erases the distinction between text and translation..." His most recent work, Unwinding Alphabets: a Book of Citations, was published by Dos Madres, 2022.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: DOS Madres Press
• Date d'édition: 2026
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1962847381
• ISBN 13: 9781962847384
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 96
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible