- Ted Pearson
Ted Pearson (born
1948 inPalo Alto, California ) is anAmerican poet . He is often associated with theLanguage poets .Life and Work
Pearson was born in 1948 in Palo Alto, California. He began studying liturgical music in 1960, instrumental music in 1962 (with
Harvey Samuels ,Lee Konitz ,Modesto Briseno , and others), and began writing poetry in 1964 afterPaul Desmond gave him a copy ofRobert Creeley ’s For Love. He subsequently attendedVanderCook College of Music (Chicago),Foothill College (Los Altos Hills), andSan Francisco State University (BA English, 1971).In 1977, Pearson began his long association with the poets who were then actively involved in creating Language poetry, a new school of innovative writing that emerged in San Francisco, New York, and other places during this period. Among these poets were
Rae Armantrout ,Steve Benson ,Alan Bernheimer ,Carla Harryman ,Lyn Hejinian ,Tom Mandel ,Bob Perelman ,Kit Robinson ,Ron Silliman , andBarrett Watten .In 1988, Pearson left the Bay Area, and has lived in Ithaca (1988-94), Buffalo (1994-97), and Detroit (1997-2006). He now lives in Redlands, California, where he is adjunct faculty in the Departments of English and Race & Ethnic Studies at the
University of Redlands .elected publications
*"The Grit," 1976, Trike Books (San Francisco, CA)
*"The Blue Table," 1979, Trike Books (San Francisco, CA)
*"Soundings," 1980, Singing Horse Press (Philadelphia, PA)
*"Ellipsis," 1981, Trike Books (San Francisco, CA)
*"Refractions," 1982, Origin (Series 4) (Boston, MA)
*"Flukes," 1982, Privately Printed (San Francisco, CA)
*"Coulomb's Law," 1984, Square Zero Editions(San Francisco, CA)
*"Mnemonics," 1985, Gaz (San Francisco, CA)
*"Catenary Odes," 1987, O Books (Oakland, CA)
*"Evidence: 1975-1989," Gaz 1989, (San Francisco, CA)
*"Planetary Gear," 1991, Roof Books (New York, NY)
*"Mnèmoniques," 1992, Trans. Françoise de Laroque, Un bureau sur l'Atlantique (France)
*"Acoustic Masks," 1994, Zasterle Press (Tenerife, Spain)
*"The Devil's Aria," 1999, Meow Press (Buffalo, NY)
*"Songs Aside: 1992-2002," 2003, Past Tents Press (Detroit, MI)
*"Encryptions," 2007, Singing Horse Press (San Diego, CA)External links
* [http://wings.buffalo.edu/epc/linebreak/programs/pearson/ Performance] by the author at SUNY Buffalo
* The author [http://writing.upenn.edu/pennsound/x/Pearson.html reading] at the Kelly Writers House of theUniversity of Pennsylvania .
* [http://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/07/songs-aside-appears-to-collect-ten.html Review] of "Songs Aside" byRon Silliman .
* [http://epc.buffalo.edu/authors/pearson/ Ted Pearson Author Page at EPC]
* The author [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5KGrx0W2KnQ reading] in 2007 at the University of California Berkeley.
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