Amalgam
By: Sotère Torregian
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: Ugly Duckling Presse
Published: 2019
Place of publication: Brooklyn, New York
Language: eng; fre
Number of pages: 28
Subjects: American poetry
Description: "Amalgam is a collection of recent poems and ephemera by the "surreal adventurer" Sotère Torregian. Since the early 1960's, Torregian has been developing a distinctive transnational revolutionary poetics informed by deep readings and associations with the Surrealism and Négritude movements, and the "New York School" of poets. Here are poems dedicated to poet-friends from New York to Paris to Timbuktu to California with a stopover in Newark, NJ.'"--Publisher's website.
Notes: Poems.

"Sotère Torregian was born in No-Man's-Land in the fateful year 1941; adopted language English; earliest poems in 1950's; found himself a Surrealist 1963 onward; associated with "New York School" of poets, 1963-1967; with then-wife poet Kathleen Brummal moved to California 1967; two children; divorced 1972; Single Parent; taught as "writer-in-residence" at Stanford; lecturer and research assistant to world-renowned scholar and Director of Afro-American Studies Program, Dr. St. Clair Drake (1969-1975); position terminated by Stanford administration for anti-war activities on campus; visiting lecturer, University of the Pacific (Stockton), "Mysticism Islamic and Christian" (2001-2012). Among his many books are The Golden Palomino Bites the Clock (Angel Hair), The Wounded Mattress (Oyez), Because My Pizza's Cold: Selected Works, 1957-1999 (Skanky Possum), On the Planet Without Visa (Coffee House Press), and Amalgam (UDP)."--Publisher's website.

Predominately in English, with two poems in French.

Purchased December 10, 2019, with the Aloian Book Fund.

As issued, in illustrated printed stiff paper covers; in prefab case.
Table of contents: title: Incommunicado --; title: I read with wonder what is written --; title: To Ms. Julie Singer, contestant on Jeopardy TV show, professor of French --; title: A new song for Patti Smith --; title: After Ted Berrigan's Poem machine --; title: Variations on Africa --; title: Siroun --; title: We're counting the dots -- $tDes Moines --; title: Manifeste) la féte en Quebec --; title: Manifesto (against) an (arts) festival, Quebec --; title: Manifesto: surrealist I remain --; title: Planet fitness --; title: October activities --; title: After a lecture by Bernadine Dohrn --; title: Another elephant felled by poachers today --; title: Témoignage --; title: To the Jumbo Laundry in Chicago --; title: Spaghetti Thursday --; title: Atoll --; title: Définitif --; title: Automatiques d'aujourd'hui 18e février 2019.