Memoir. "A wit that turns absurdity into sharp literary and cultural irony"-Library Journal. SELECTED ACCIDENTS, POINTLESS ANECDOTES is the first prose collection from Paul Violi, the author of ten book of poetry including the SPD titles FRACAS, BREAKERS, LIKEWISE, and THE CURIOUS BUILDERS. He is the recipient of the 2001 Morton Dauwen Zabel Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, as well as grants from the Ingram Merrill Foundation, the Foundation for Contemporary Arts, the Fund for Poetry, and two NEA poetry fellowships. "His vision is an essentially tragic one, but one that is constantly goosed by a riotous sense of the absurd"-The Bloomsbury Review.
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Paul Violi (b. July 20, 1944) is an American poet born in New York. He is the author of eleven books of poetry, including Splurge, Fracas, The Curious Builder, Likewise, and most recently Overnight. Violi was managing editor of The Architectural Forum from 1972-1974, worked on free-lance projects at Universal Limited Art Editions and as chairman of the Associate Council Poetry Committee, he organized a series of readings at the Museum of Modern Art from 1974 to 1983. He also co-founded Swollen Magpie Press, which produced poetry chapbooks, anthologies, and a magazine called New York Times. His art book collaborations with Dale Devereux Barker, most recently Envoy; Life is Completely Interesting, have been acquired by major collections. The expanded text of their first collaboration, Selected Accidents, Pointless Anecdotes, a collection of non-fiction prose, was published by Hanging Loose Press in 2002.He currently teaches in the Department of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University and in the graduate writing program at New School University.
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