Biographical Note

George Quasha's work in poetry in recent yearsfollowing Amanita's Hymnal,
Somapoetics, and Giving the Lily Back Her Handshas continued in several
strands: the "axial" poemsa selection of which comprises In No Time,
the "oneirica" (including Ainu Dreams), and an open modality working with
both the "somapoetic" and axial principles (The Preverbs of Tell: News Torqued
from Undertime). The axial principle extends across mediums to visual and
sound worksound performance, drawings, stone works, installation and video.
His "Axial Stones" will be exhibited at the Westbeth Gallery in New York City
in December1999.

His ongoing collaborations with Charles Stein and Gary Hill, begun in the 1970s,
include sound poetry (e.g., Tale Enclosure, a Gary Hill single-channel video),
text and on-site development of the installation Disturbance (among the jars)
at the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris, and various kinds of writing and live
performancesthe latter extending his over twenty years of performance and
dialogical work with Charles Stein. Also with Charles Stein he has co-authored
many works, including three recent books in a series, Gary Hill's Projective
Installations 1-3: HanD HearD/liminal objects, Tall Ships, and Viewer.

He has edited several poetry anthologiesincluding America a Prophecy
(with Jerome Rothenberg), Open Poetry (with Ron Gross), and Active Anthology
(with Susan Quasha), the journal Stony Brook and, recently, The Station Hill
Blanchot Reader.
 


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