Bruce Andrews

Bruce Andrews is “a performance artist and poet whose texts are some of the most radical of the Language school; his poetry tries to cast doubt on each and every ‘natural’ construction of language” (The Oxford Companion to TwentiethCentury Literature in English). Founding co-editor of the journal L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E, which catalyzed the so-called Language Poetry movement, he has maintained a prolific record of activism at the adventurous edge of the literary avant-garde. Author of over thirty volumes of poetry (including Designated Heartbeat, LipService, Give Em Enough Rope, and I Don’t Have Any Paper So Shut Up(or, Social Romanticism), and a collection of innovative critical essays (Paradise & Method: Poetics &Praxis), with books, shorter texts, interviews, essays, recordings & commentary online at the Electronic Poetry Center, Ubu, PennSound, Eclipse, Jacket & Wickipedia sites. He lives in New York City, teaching Political Science & collaborating with a widening circle of other artists (in particular, in ‘live editing’ of texts in performance & as Music Director for Sally Silvers & Dancers).