Leslie Scalapino
American poet, experimental prose writer, playwright, essayist and editor / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Leslie Scalapino (July 25, 1944 ā May 28, 2010) was an American poet, experimental prose writer, playwright, essayist, and editor, sometimes grouped in with the Language poets, though she felt closely tied to the Beat poets.[1] A longtime resident of California's Bay Area, she earned an M.A. in English from the University of California at Berkeley. One of Scalapino's most critically well-received works is Way (North Point Press, 1988), a long poem which won the Poetry Center Award, the Lawrence Lipton Prize, and the American Book Award.
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Born | (1944-07-25)July 25, 1944 Santa Barbara, California, U.S. |
Died | May 28, 2010(2010-05-28) (aged 65) Berkeley, California, U.S. |
Occupation | Poet, playwright, publisher |
Education | B.A. Reed College; M.A. University of California at Berkeley |
Period | Postmodern |
Genre | Inter-genre |
Subject | "Continual conceptual rebellion"[1] |
Years active | 1974 ā 2010 |
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