Leslie Scalapino | |
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 Scalapino in Speaking Portraits | |
| Born | July 25, 1944 Santa Barbara, California, U.S. |
| Died | May 28, 2010 (aged 65) Berkeley, California, U.S. |
| Occupation | Poet, playwright, publisher |
| Education | B.A. Reed College; M.A. University of California at Berkeley |
| Period | Postmodern |
| Genre | Inter-genre |
| Subject | "Continual conceptual rebellion"[1] |
| Years active | 1974 – 2010 |
| Website | |
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Leslie Scalapino (July 25, 1944 – May 28, 2010) was an American poet, experimental prose writer, playwright, essayist, and editor, sometimes grouped in with the Language poets, though she felt closely tied to the Beat poets.[1] A longtime resident of California's Bay Area, she earned an M.A. in English from the University of California at Berkeley. One of Scalapino's most critically well-received works is Way (North Point Press, 1988), a long poem which won the Poetry Center Award, the Lawrence Lipton Prize, and the American Book Award.
- ^ a b Hejinian, Lyn. "Leslie Scalapino Remembered". Poet.org. Academy of American Poets. Retrieved December 26, 2010. Writes Hejinian:
She had close ties to writers of the Beat movement, especially with those whose serious study of Buddhism influenced their writing and their vision of an ethical world. She also had numerous ties to the Language writers. But these were largely ties of community and friendship. In her writing, Leslie Scalapino's voice and vision were unprecedented, a product of her unique and rigorous intelligence and compassion. She belonged to no school; her engagement with continual conceptual rebellion would have prohibited that.