The fourth week of October's -empyre- discussion will start tomorrow, continuing with the topic of Pain, Suffering, and Death in the Real and Virtual. The guest will be Maria Damon. Her biographical information is below. I've followed Maria's work for a long time, and it has always amazed me; it has a poetics all its own, brilliant and surprising.
- Alan Week 4 - Maria Damon (US) Maria Damon teaches poetry and poetics at the University of Minnesota. She is the author of The Dark End of the Street: Margins in American Vanguard Poetry and Postliterary America: From Bagel Shop Jazz to Micropoetries, co-author of several books of poetry and online projects with mIEKAL aND (Literature Nation, Eros/ion, pleasureTEXTpossession, E.n.t.r.a.n.c.e.d) and one with Jukka-Pekka Kervinen (Door Marked X), and co-editor, with Ira Livingston, of Poetry and Cultural Studies: A Reader. _______________________________________________ empyre forum empyre@lists.cofa.unsw.edu.au http://www.subtle.net/empyre
