Tom Mandel (poet)

Tom Mandel (poet)

Thomas Poeller Mandel (born 1942 in Chicago, Illinois) is a contemporary American poet whose work is often associated with the Language poets.

Biography

He was born Thomas Oskar Poeller to Rose Kassner and Thaddeus Poeller, Austrian Jews who had just escaped Europe, escaping first from Vienna and then from Vichy France. Thaddeus Poeller had been imprisoned in the French concentration camp Le Vernet [Fellow prisoner Arthur Koestler described Camp Vernet in "The Invisible Writing" and in his novel "Scum of the Earth".] and died in America in 1946 of a liver disease he contracted in the camp. Rose Poeller then married Paul Mandel, who adopted Tom and gave him his name.

Mandel attended school in Chicago, including the University of Chicago, where he studied with philosophers Richard McKeon and Hannah Arendt, novelist Saul Bellow, classicist and translator David Grene, and art critic Harold Rosenberg, among others. A first marriage in Chicago produced two daughters, Jessica and Sarah. He is married to the writer Beth Joselow and lives in Lewes, Delaware.

Writing

After sojourns in New York and Paris, Mandel moved to San Francisco and became involved with the new poetry that was arising there, later known as the Language School. He co-curated a reading series with Ron Silliman at the Grand Piano, a coffee house in San Francisco's Haight-Ashbury neighborhood, continuing a series originally founded by Barrett Watten. In 1978-79, he was Director of the Poetry Center at San Francisco State University.

Works

*"Ency", 1978, Tuumba (Berkeley, CA)
*"Erat", 1980, Burning Deck (Providence, RI)
*"Ready to Go", 1982, Ithaca House (Ithaca, NY)
*"Central Europe", 1986, Coincidences Press (Oakland, CA)
*"Some Appearances", 1987, Jimmy's House of Knowledge (Oakland,CA)
*"Four Strange Books", 1990, Gaz (New York, NY)
*"Realism", 1991, Burning Deck (Providence, RI)
*"Letters of the Law", 1994
*"Prospect of Release", 1996, Chax Press (Tucson, AZ)
*"Absence Sensorium", with Daniel Davidson, 1997, Potes & Poets Press (Elmwood, CT)
*"Ancestral Cave", SPD, 1997.

Notes and references

External links

* [http://www.tommandel.com Tom Mandel's website] - includes information about his writing career as well as his career as a technology entrepreneur and consultant.
* [http://www.markszine.com/index.html poems at mark(s)] an online magazine
* [http://www.writing.upenn.edu/pennsound/phillytalks/Philly-Talks-Episode05.html Tom Mandel] with Ammiel Alcalay at The Kelly Writers House
* [http://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/05/to-cognescenti-is-tom-mandels-twelfth.html Ron Silliman reviews] "To the Cognoscenti"


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