Comrade Past & Mister Present [Paperback]

Andrei Codrescu (Author)

Editorial Reviews

Review

Blues For Cassanova
Cohere Britannia
Comrade Past & Mister Present
Dear Masoch
En Passant
The Fourth Of July
The Inner Source
Momentary Bafflement With Return Home At Dawn
Music
November 6, 1984
Petite Madeleine
School Daze
Volcanic Dirge & Co.
When Lightning Struck, 1
-- Table of Poems from Poem Finder®

About the Author

Writer and NPR commentator Andrei Codrescu was working on a film exploring life along the Mississippi, when Katrina slammed into his hometown. After hosting scores of refugees in his Baton Rouge home, Codrescu released his essay collection New Orleans Mon Amour, becoming one of the many important voices celebrating New Orleans culture, recording its devastation, and awakening America's conscience.

Product Details

• Paperback: 112 pages
• Publisher: Coffee House Press; First Edition edition (June 1, 1986)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0918273218
• ISBN-13: 978-0918273215
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 7.2 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,052,081 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Andrei Codrescu (codrescu.com) was born in Sibiu, Transylvania, Romania. His first poetry book "License to Carry a Gun" won the Big Table Poetry award. He founded Exquisite Corpse: a Journal of Books & Ideas (corpse.org), taught literature and poetry at Johns Hopkins University, University of Baltimore, and Louisiana State University where he was MacCurdy Distinguished Professor of English. He is a regular commentator on NPR's All Things Considered since 1983, has received a Peabody Award for writing and starring in the film "Road Scholar. In 1989 he returned to his native Romania to cover the fall of the Ceausescu regime for NPR and ABC News, and wrote "The Hole in the Flag: an Exile's Story of Return and Revolution." He is the author of books of poetry, novels, essays; the most recent are "The Posthuman Dada Guide: Tzara and Lenin Play Chess," (2009) "The Poetry Lesson" (2010) and "whatever gets you through the night: a story of sheherezade and the arabian entertainments" (2011), all published by Princeton University Press.