Stephen Rodefer

Stephen Rodefer

Stephen Rodefer (born November 1940 in Ohio) is an American poet and painter who lives in Paris and London. Rodefer is one of the founders of the Language Poetry Movement. He knew many of the early beat poets including Allen Ginsberg, Gregory Corso, Charles Olson, and Robert Creeley.

His papers were purchased by Stanford University and are on permanent view there. [ [http://www-sul.stanford.edu/depts/hasrg/ablit/amerlit/rodefer.html Stanford University - American Literary Studies - Stephen Rodefer Papers] ]

Education

1959-63 Amherst College, Amherst, Massachusetts, Art History & Literature

1959-61 SUNY Buffalo, New York, Graduate Studies in Poetry and Literature

Books

Poetry
* 2008: "Call it Thought: Selected Poems" (Carcanet)
* 2000: "Left Under a Cloud." (London: Alfred David Editions)
* 2000: "Mon Canard: Six Poems" (Figures)
* 1996: "Answer to Dr Agathon" (Cambridge: Poetical Histories)
* 1994: "Erasers" (Cambridge, UK : Equipage)
* 1992: "Leaving" (Cambridge, UK: Equipage)
* 1992: "Double Imperative Landscapes: Daydreams of Frascati", with Chip Sullivan (Berkeley, CA: Sake Forebear)
* 1991: "Passing Duration" (Providence: Burning Deck)
* 1987: "Emergency Measures" (Great Barrington, MA: The Figures)
* 1984: "Oriflamme Day", with Benjamin Friedlander (Oakland, CA: House of K)
* 1982: "Four Lectures" (Berkeley, CA : The Figures)
* 1981: "Plane Debris" (Berkeley, CA: Tuumba Press)
* 1978: "The Bell Clerk’s Tears Keep Flowing" (Berkeley, CA: The Figures)
* 1976: "One or Two Love Poems from the White World" (Placitas, NM: Duende)

Translation
* 2008: "Hölderlin", with Nick Walker (UK: Barque Editions)
* 2008: "Baudelaire, Fever Flowers: les fleurs du val" (UK: Barque Editions)
* 1994: "Rilke I IV VI", with Geoff Ward and Ian Patterson (Cambridge, UK: Poetical Histories)
* 1991: 'Dante: Selections from the Inferno' in "Passing Duration"
* 1985: "Orpheus" [Rilke] (San Francisco: Tuscany Alley)
* 1985: "Safety, translations from Sappho and the Greek Anthology" (Berkeley, CA: Margery Cantor)
* 1976: "Villon", by Jean Calais [pen name] (San Francisco: Pick Pocket Series)
* 1973: "After Lucretius" (University of Connecticut)

Criticism
* 2008: "The Monkeys Donut: Essays in Post-Classical American Literature" (London: Kollophon)
* 1988: "The Library of Label" (Toronto: Coach House)

Reviews

* [http://jacketmagazine.com/15/brady-rodefer.html Jacket Magazine 15, December 2001. Andrea Brady reviews "Left Under a Cloud" by Stephen Rodefer]
* [http://www.ndorward.com/poetry/magazines/gig8.htm The Gig 8: Review of Stephen Rodefer’s Mon Canard and Left Under a Cloud]

References


* [http://www.cccp-online.org/2004/index.html 14th international Cambridge Conference of Contemporary Poetry took place at Trinity College, Cambridge, from 23 - 25 April 2004]
* [http://www.sfsu.edu/~newlit/readings/readings.htm Poetry Center Readings]


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